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Milestones
Transplant recipients receives blessings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama as Apollo hospitals celebrates 15 ye...
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who spoke on the wisdom of compassion to patients and staff of the hospital, graced the event. Dr. Prathap C Reddy, Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group along with several dignitaries was also present on the occasion.
The Apollo Hospitals has been a pioneer in organ transplantation in the country. The program with 1200 liver and kidney transplants in 2012 became the world’s busiest and while celebrating the anniversary, His Holiness The Dalai Lama applauded the patients and their families for the fortitude shown by them.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama said, “Compassion is an understanding of the emotional state of another. It is a desire to alleviate or reduce the suffering of another or to show special kindness to those who suffer. I am glad to be a part of this gathering, celebrating the joy of overcoming ailments and encouraging one and all to be part of promoting healthy living.”
More than 200,000 Indians require organ transplantation annually
An estimated 20,000 liver transplants are required per year in India
It is estimated that one lac brain deaths take place per year in India
Organ donation rate in India is 0.05 per million compared to 33 per millon in Spain
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Prathap C. Reddy said, “I on behalf of the entire Apollo family would like to thank His Holiness for gracing the occasion today. His Holiness is a global thought leader and to hear him today was as wonderful as ever. His enlightened words on compassion have left an indelible mark on me. We at Apollo Hospitals pledge to do our utmost to touch a billion lives in whatever way possible. A small step towards that is our pledge to sponsor and help five children of Tibetan origin with cardiac ailments at our hospitals every year. I would also like to congratulate our transplant team for becoming the world’s busiest in transplants. This is a testament to our expertise and untiring determination to make the nation proud.”
Dr. Anupam Sibal, Group Medical Director, Apollo Hospitals Group and Senior Consultant Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology said, “today indeed is a meaningful day as 200 transplant recipients and their families received blessings from His Holiness and they will share what was a truly divine experience with the 15300 other families who have received a liver or a kidney transplant at Apollo Hospitals. Our doctors, nurses and all the staff of our hospitals are fortunate to have received His Holiness’s blessings in person today”
Apollo Hospitals, under the aegis of the Gift A Life (www.giftalife.org) initiative has been an active partner in advocating and undertaking activities aimed at promoting the cause of organ donation. The mission of Gift A Life is to ensure that no person in India dies for want of an organ. The initiative has been running successfully for the past two years, where the initiative has been associated with a varied likeminded institutions and partners across the country to conduct awareness drives amongst people on organ donation.
New Initiatives
Apollo Hospitals adopts white tiger…
Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee Hills, have adopted ‘Sharan’, a white tiger, for a period of one year under the animal adoption scheme offered at the Nehru Zoological Park.
The zoo said till date there had been 32 animal adoptions for which it received Rs. 56.28 lakh and described the response to the scheme as ‘encouraging’ and said efforts will continue for more participation.
Milestones
Apollo performs first heart transplant from Hyderabad facility!
Apollo Hospitals performed the first heart transplant surgery from its facility in Hyderabad on a 19-year old student, Veer Anjaneyulu, suffering with dilated cardiomyopathy. The case is related to end-stage heart failure leading to depression of heart muscle. The operation was performed on 11th November by Dr Vijay Dixit, Chief of Cardiothoracic surgery, Apollo Hospitals. Dilated cardiomyopathy was very common in India and can be treated through drugs.
However, in cases where it can’t be cured it leads to end-stage failure which would be dealt only through a heart transplant. In this particular case, the hospital was supported by Jeevandan Project of the Andhra Pradesh government, and the city’s traffic Police in successfully harvesting the donor heart and transporting it to the hospital.
Milestones
UPA Chairperson felicitates India’s first successful Liver Transplant recipient as he completes 15 years...
UPA Chairperson and Congress Party President,Smt. Sonia Gandhi felicitated India’s first successful liver transplant recipient, Sanjay Kandasamy from Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu who had undergone a liver transplant in November 1998 at Apollo Hospitals Delhi.
On the 15th anniversary of successful liver transplantation in India, Smt. Gandhi interacted with Sanjay and his family and said, “It is wonderful to see how the young infant in dire need of a transplant is today a healthy young man who himself wants to become a doctor. It is a testament not only on India’s medical acumen but also of the tenacity of this young man. I wish him and his family the very best for the future and I would like to congratulate the institution for establishing liver transplantation in our country“.
Sanjay was born with a rare condition called Biliary Atresia, which is seen in 1 in 12000 babies. This is a condition in which there is no connection between the liver and the intestine so the bile produced in the liver cannot be excreted and therefore damages the liver. These babies develop jaundice a few days after birth and the jaundice progressively increases. An operation to create bile flow, if performed before the age of 2 months can prevent liver failure. Unfortunately in India, most babies with biliary atresia are diagnosed after the age of 3 months making this operation unsuccessful. This happened in Sanjay’s case. Since his condition was deteriorating because of liver failure, his family decided to come to Delhi as a liver transplantation program was being established at Apollo Hospitals Delhi. Sanjay’s father came forward to donate a part of his liver to give his son a new lease of life. Sanjay became the first child to undergone a liver transplant in India on 15th November 1998 and made medical history.
Dr Preetha Reddy, Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Group, said, “The success of the liver transplantation has established the low cost – high quality value proposition that India offers and has enhanced the reputation of Indian healthcare globally. The outcomes are comparable to the best in the West with a cost which is one tenth”.
According to Dr.AnupamSibal, Group Medical Director and Senior Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Apollo Hospitals Group, “Sanjay now leads a completely normal life, goes to school like other kids, enjoys meals, plays football, wants to become a doctor to save lives. Sanjay’s success helped establish liver transplantation in India. The Apollo Transplant Program has now performed more than 1500 liver transplants, out of which more than 700 have been performed in the last two years. By performing 1200 solid organ transplants in 2012, the Apollo Transplant Program became the busiest solid organ transplant in the world. Today, we would like to thank Sanjay’s family for their faith in us which helped the program achieve this landmark”.
New Initiatives
Apollo Group ties up with Common Service Centres to expand telemedicine services!
A memorandum of understanding was signed between Apollo Group and CSC under the Department of Electronics and Information Technology in Delhi. Apollo Hospitals started telemedicine 13 years back, in an effort to bring healthcare closer to patients of both urban and rural areas. Apollo Tele Health Services, a group company of Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Limited, has signed a MoU with CSC.
This collaboration is aimed at providing primary, preventive and promotive healthcare through tele consultation to rural patients from telemedicine speciality centres situated within Apollo hospitals across various locations in the country and will run virtual clinics for patients using telemedicine technology. This is the first time in the country that healthcare services are being delivered using information and communication technology at a large scale.
Speaking on the occasion, Apollo Hospitals, Executive Director, Sangita Reddy said that the group planned to make healthcare available to more than 1,00,000 CSC centres using telemedicine platform under its Rural Connect programme.
The Common Services Centres Scheme, being the corner stone initiative through the National e-Governance plan of India, is a milestone achievement in creating a structured change agent for socially inclusive community action, according to CSC Chief Executive Officer, Dr Dinesh Kumar Tyagi.
Apollo Tele Health Services, CEO, Vikram Thaploo said the rural connect programme was designed to be socially relevant, financially sustainable and a scalable model. He also added that 112 centres were made operational under this tie-up.
New Initiatives
Telemedicine service now in Ghana!
A medical revolution has been launched under County Group of Hospitals of Kumasi and Apollo Group of Hospitals in India, following the launch of telemedicine in Ghana at the Abenkyiman Hospital at Anhwiankwanta in the Bekwai Municipality.
Apollo Hospitals is the largest telemedicine provider in India with 71 centres. Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technology in order to provide clinical health care from a distance.
It helps eliminate distance barriers, and can improve access to medical services that would often not be consistently available in distant rural communities. It is also used to save lives in critical care and emergency situations.
Early forms of telemedicine achieved with telephone and radio have been supplemented with video telephony, advanced diagnostic methods, supported by distributed client/server applications, and additionally, with telemedical devices to support in-home care.
Telemedicine, by which the best healthcare is brought to everybody through the expertise of highly qualified doctors through technology, was successfully launched at the Abenkyiman Hospital on Nov 8 2013.
The partnership, initiated by Dr. Kwame Antwi, Chief Executive Officer of County Hospitals, is to exploit the clinical excellence of the Indian counterparts.
A group of medical experts from India are currently doing feasibility studies towards establishing a referral centre in telemedicine in the next years.
Dr. K. Hari Prasad, Chief Executive of Apollo Hospitals, an expert in acute stroke treatment, who is leading a group of nine medical experts, said the team would also launch a “”medical camp””, where specialists would avail their expertise and services to clients in the treatment and management of kidney, liver and stroke, among other ailments, at Abenkyiman.
The Apollo Chief Executive gave the assurance that about 85,000 medical experts involved in Apollo would support Dr. Antwi to realise his vision of making Abenkyiman a destination of excellence in telemedicine in Ghana.
Dr. Kwame Antwi said services at the centre were affordable, and that it would cost between GHÇ50 and GHÇ100 to access telemedicine, through which patients would be connected to the best doctors around the globe.
The Member of Parliament for Bekwai, Joseph Osei-Owusu, who witnessed the launching of the technology, commended Dr. Antwi for the foresight and championing the introduction of telemedicine in Ghana, and hoped Ghanaians would take advantage of the facility, which is intended to further enhance quality healthcare delivery.
Awards & Accolades
HIMSS Elsevier award for Apollo Hospitals!
The award is given in recognition of the exemplary effort, commitment and dedication to leveraging on healthcare ICT to transform patient care and outcome.
The award was presented at the HIMSS Digital Healthcare Week in Singapore, on 21 October 2013. The award was presented by Stephen Lieber, President and CEO of HIMSS worldwide and Gerrit Bos, Managing Director APAC, Elsevier.
Ms. Sangita Reddy received the awards on behalf of the group.
Speaking on the occasion, Ms. Reddy said “With patient centricity at the core, Apollo Hospitals has continuously focused on initiatives that provide superior patient care and comfort. The Apollo Prism initiative resonates perfectly with our ethos and helps us in providing our patients with secure and convenient access to their medical information, irrespective of their location across the world. We do believe that Apollo Prism representing a robust medical record will encourage individuals to stay more engaged with their health and in turn enhance clinical outcomes and also reduce unnecessary costs”. Ms. Reddy further added, “Apollo Prism has been launched across all Apollo Hospitals locations and has been tightly integrated with Hospital Information System across locations, thus providing clinically validated information to patients, who come to Apollo Hospitals. Patients can also download the mobile application of Apollo Prism that lets them receive their lab test results on their phone. Apollo Prism is also an interface for diabetic patients, for managing their diabetes. Thus, beyond helping a patient to track and manage their health information, the PHR enables continuous, preventive and wellness support.”
“We would like to congratulate the HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Awards winners. We received nominations from across the Asia Pacific region such as China, Hong Kong, India, Korea and Singapore. The winners have demonstrated superior implementation and utilization of health IT systems that have directly resulted in organization-wide advancements in patient care and operational efficiencies. We hope that their projects will inspire a new wave of IT advancement in the healthcare delivery,” said Steven Yeo, Vice President & Executive Director, HIMSS Asia Pacific, General Manager, HIMSS Analytics Asia Pacific & Middle East.
“It is exciting and encouraging to witness how the Asia Pacific healthcare industry is embracing the transformational role of technology to harness the power of medical information. The organizations recognized for the HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Award have demonstrated how technology adoption can achieve efficiencies and improve quality of care. It is for this very reason that Elsevier is proud to support and celebrate this innovative spirit of the community,” said Gerrit Bos, Managing Director APAC, Elsevier.
Apollo Hospitals in collaboration with Health Hiway, a cloud based Health Information Network had launched its highly secure, web-based Personal Health Record (PHR) – Apollo Prism Headquartered in Bangalore. Health Hiway is a cloud based health information network that enables seamless exchange of health information – data sharing and transactional – between hospitals, clinics, diagnostics, insurers, doctors and Patients.
Awards & Accolades
HIMSS Asia Pacific Recognizes Apollo Hospitals!
HIMSS Analytics Asia Pacific has recognized three hospitals within Apollo Group for achieving Stage 6 on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM)SM. The hospitals are:
Apollo Main Hospitals, Chennai
Apollo Health City, Jubilee Hills,
Apollo Hospitals Ayanambakkam, Chennai
These Stage 6 hospitals were recognized at the HIMSS Digital Healthcare Week in Singapore, on 21 October 2013. The award was presented by Stephen Lieber, CAE President & CEO of HIMSS worldwide; in the presence of Dr. Amy Khor , Senior Minister of State for Health and Manpower, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Manpower, Republic of Singapore; Steven Yeo, Vice President & Executive Director HIMSS Asia Pacific and John Hoyt, Executive Vice President, HIMSS Analytics
Ms. Sangita Reddy received the awards on behalf of the group. Speaking on the occasion, Ms. Reddy said ” As a pioneering organization, Apollo Hospitals has always been of the firm belief that an increased use of contemporary information technology would be pivotal to enhanced patient safety and a higher standard of healthcare delivery. The HIMSS Stage 6 awards underscore our commitment to this ethos and our mission to make quality healthcare accessible to every individual. Recognition is a great motivator and the HIMSS awards will encourage us to harness information technology and nurture an ecosystem of safer healthcare in every Apollo Hospital. It reinforces our commitment to using technology to enable and effective and efficient health system for tomorrow. Much more remains to be done in our quest for quality equitable and sustainable health systems. Information technology is at the core of our strategy.”
HIMSS Analytics developed the EMR Adoption Model in 2005 as a methodology for evaluating the progress and impact of electronic medical record systems for hospitals in the HIMSS AnalyticsTM Database. Tracking their progress in completing eight stages (0-7), hospitals can review the implementation and utilization of information technology applications with the intent of reaching Stage 7, which represents an advanced patient record environment.
“HIMSS Analytics congratulates Apollo Hospitals Chennai, Apollo Health City, Jubilee Hills and Apollo Hospitals Ayanambakkam, for leading the way towards health IT adoption,”said Mr. Steven Yeo, General Manager of HIMSS Analytics Asia Pacific & Middle East. “Stage 6 represents a level of sophistication that only 2.3% of hospitals in Asia Pacific have reached to date. The awards validate Apollo Hospitals’ strong commitment towards patient safety and care quality through the use of advanced information technology”
Milestones
Honourable Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Selvi J Jayalalithaa recognises the 12th Super specialty Hos...
Honourable Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Selvi J Jayalalithaa today recognised Apollo Hospitals’ 12th multispecialty hospital in Vanagaram, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Over the last year, the local communities of Anna Nagar, Poonammale, Porur and other surrounding areas have benefited immensely from the Hopsital’s expertise in Tertiary Care and Emergency services.
India has a long way to go in ensuring complete health for all citizens and we are glad to be contributing towards this journey of healing a nation. Today, while India is globally recognised for its unparalleled clinical outcomes, there are many in the underserved geographies who are yet to experience affordable quality healthcare. As the first Private Healthcare provider in the Country, Apollo has always worked towards raising the benchmark for administering healthcare of global standards by continuously investing in our talent, technology and patient care.”In addition to 24*7 Emergency and Trauma Care, at Apollo Vanagaram one can avail of services across 30 specialties including that of cardiology, neurology & neurosurgery, obstetrics & gynaecology, nephrology, ophthalmology, endocrinology, paediatrics, and orthopaedics & spine surgery among others.
Ms. Preetha Reddy, Managing Director, said “Thirty years ago, we began our journey of healing in Chennai with a mission to bring healthcare of international standards within the reach of every individual. The same vision steers our efforts even today as we are spreading our footprint across tier II and III locations to serve more people and enable positive clinical outcomes. Recently the Vanagaram facility was recognised with the HIMSS Analytics Asia Pacific for its significant advancement in IT capabilities addressing challenges faced as a healthcare provider, including one like reduction of medication errors. All of this testifies our continuous contribution towards delivering world class healthcare in India.”
Over the years, Apollo has earned global recognition for its highly skilled medical talent and world class infrastructure that enable it to deliver clinical outcomes that compare with the best institutions in the world, at an affordable cost. Trusted across the world with patients from over 120 countries availing of its services and encouraged by the recent recognition as the World’s No. 1 Solid Organ Transplant Facility, the Group is committed to strengthening its prowess as a global healthcare destination.
Facilities & Amenities at Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Vanagaram include:
24*7 Emergency
State of the art ICU/CCU units
Facility for virtual ICU visits
Cutting-edge imaging and diagnostic facilities
Cath lab
World class Operation suites
24*7 Pharmacy
5 to 9 Evening Clinic
Insurance Facilitation
Home Collection services for diagnostic test samples
New Initiatives
Delivering Health Care over Cell Phone!
Can cell phones save lives? Marking a significant shift, Indian healthcare providers are now looking at extending medical services through mobile telephony. This means a cancer patient in a Tamil Nadu district hospital can have the option of consulting a specialist in Kolkata or a heart patient in Meerut can receive treatment from a cardiologist in Bangalore.
Apollo Hospitals – which is already running a telemedicine project – is planning to ramp up its plans of providing medical services through technology like blue tooth enabled glucometers or stethoscopes to send ECG results or sugar test to its panel of doctors. Last week saw the launch of a 46-member strong conglomeration of hospitals, health insurers, and medical service providers under the aegis of NatHealth or the Health Federation of India which among other things plans to provide access to standardized healthcare at reasonable cost.
Notwithstanding challenges like low bandwidth and internet penetration, health professionals feel that there is a huge market (900 million Indian cell phone owners) waiting to be tapped. A recent study conducted by Apollo Hospitals and Georgia State University, Atlanta, gives credence to this belief. The survey found that nearly 28% people in rural areas and 46% in urban areas owned smartphones. Conducted across a sample of 1,866 people spread in five states – Chhattisgarh Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu – it also found that one-third of those interviewed had not undergone a health check-up in five years with 55% saying they were open to accessing medical services through mobile phones.
Dr Ganapathy, Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation president, said, “People should take an increasing role in managing their own health condition.” The pilot project will be launched in Aragonda village in Andhra Pradesh and will be followed by a rollout across the country.
NatHealth secretary general Anjan Bose said plans were afoot to change the way medical care was given. “If the doctor will not go to rural areas, we plan to take the patient to the doctor.” This has become relatively easy with new technology. Bose said under the aegis of Nat Health, medical professionals will be talking to the Centre and state governments to provide health infrastructure, use technology to provide quicker and accurate diagnosis, link primary healthcare centres with super specialty hospitals among other plans.
Awards & Accolades
Apollo BGS Hospitals, Mysore certified with NABH Accreditation!
The NABH accreditation is the result of high level of dedication, commitment & hard work displayed by the employees and consultants of Apollo BGS Hospitals, Mysore.
The hospital was announced as NABH Accredited on September 19th 2013 and thereby became the 7th NABH Accredited hospital in the group. The hospital is amongst those few which have completed the NABH accreditation process in short period. The key areas which were appreciated during the audit process are –
Involvement and commitment of Top management and all staffs across the hospital
Improvement noticed since Pre-assessment
Commitment to improve
PPE’s & their usage
Biomedical waste management
Near zero surgical site infection
Mock drill demonstration
Infrastructure (Renovated MICU & OT Complex)
The Leadership, Consultants & Employees at Apollo BGS Hospitals, Mysore are committed to continue the quality journey to provide the highest standards of patient care to the people of Mysore and beyond.
About NABH Accreditation
National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH) is a constituent board of Quality Council of India, set up to establish and operate accreditation programme for healthcare organizations. The board is structured to cater to much desired needs of the consumers and to set benchmarks for progress of health industry.
New Initiatives
Apollo Cancer Hospital inaugurated in Bilaspur !
Chief Executive Officer of National Accreditation Board for Hospitals (NABH), Dr K K Kalra inaugurated Apollo Cancer Hospital, Bilaspur on 23rd October, 2013 in the presence of Dr Rupali Basu, CEO (Eastern Region), Apollo Hospitals and Brig (Dr) Anil Kumar Sharma, CEO of Apollo Hospitals, Bilaspur.
Apollo Cancer Hospital (ACH), Bilaspur is a new block within the premises of Apollo Hospitals, Bilaspur. ACH offers the facility of every kind of diagnostic, therapeutic, palliative and support services under one roof, making it one-stop cancer care hospital. The latest state-of-the-art linear accelerator (Clinac iX) is the first of its kind of installation for Radiation Therapy in the state of Chhattisgarh.
We believe that the latest technology operated by personnel with unmatched competence and years of experience is essential to deliver the best quality of care.
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