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Awards & Accolades
Apollo Gleaneagles Hospital, Kolkata has become the First hospital in India to get the ISO 22000:2005 – ...
The Food and Beverage Department of Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals (AGH), Kolkata is the FIRST F & B Department of any Hospital in India to get the coveted ISO 22000:2005 – HACCP certification. It is certified by British Standards Institution (BSIUK).
The ISO 22000:2005 – HACCP final survey was conducted during July 27 – 29, 2011 and the AGH F&B conformed to all standards and guidelines. The ISO 22000:2005 – HACCP certification is valid for three years.
The scope of the survey and certification includes “”Receipt, Storage, Preparation and Delivery of Cooked and Uncooked Food for In House Patients, Outdoor Patients and Food & Beverage Outlets””.
ISO 22000(HACCP) is a food safety management system in which food safety is addressed through the analysis and control of biological, chemical, and physical hazards from raw material production, procurement and handling, to manufacturing, distribution and consumption of the finished product.
The recommendations and guidelines were being implemented since last one and half year. It involved systematic planning and documentation, rigorous process improvement and delivery of safe food to our patients and clients.
New Initiatives
“Ace cricketer, Gautam Gambhir, launches ‘Gift A Life’ Initiative – An initiative to c...
Gautam Gambhir, one of India’s top cricketers, launched ‘Gift A Life’ initiative at Delhi. The initiative along with its website is supported by the Apollo Transplant Institutes, to encourage people to take a pledge for donating organs to save countless lives in the process. The mission of ‘Gift A Life’ is to ensure that no person in India dies for want of an organ. This public awareness initiative aims to bring together information and awareness on the issue of organ donation. The website endeavors to start and then sustain a movement on organ donation and awareness.
Dr. Anupam Sibal, Group Medical Director and Senior Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Apollo Hospitals, Delhi, said, “We desperately need to create awareness about organ donation while in Spain 33 per million population organ donations take place, in India the rate is 0.1 per million population. It is now more than 15 years since the law declaring brain death came into effect in India, yet there is limited awareness that one individual can gift lives to atleast 8 patients with organ failure. As a clinician it really pains to lose a child for want of an organ.”
Taking the pledge, Gautam Gambhir said, “Thousands die every year for want of organs and I feel through initiatives like ‘Gift a Life’ we can do society good by bridging the gap. I appeal to the media to create awareness about organ donation. I would like to urge everyone to make this decision to donate their organs.”
Leading specialists from Apollo Hospitals were present at the Press Conference held for the launch, showcasing their support towards the initiative.
Shortage of donors and organs has impeded the necessary thrust required to save more lives. More than one lakh people need replacement treatment for their ailments and living donors suffice only a fraction of the demand.
‘Gift A Life’ would like to encourage everyone to pledge to donate their organs simply by signing up on the website – www.giftalife.org.
Awards & Accolades
The Apollo Group of Hospitals has been ranked high in many categories of The WEEK / HANSA Research Survey of B...
Apollo Group Hospitals has been listed among the Top 10 in various categories by the WEEK Best Hospitals in India Survey, 2021. Apollo Hospitals Chennai has been rated as the Best Private Sector Multi-Speciality Hospital in India !
The WEEK/HANSA Research Survey on the best hospitals in India was conducted in 15 cities-Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Ludhiana, Lucknow, Pune, Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Indore, Coimbatore, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram. As many as 399 general practitioners and 438 specialists, including cardiologists, ophthalmologists, oncologists and diabetologists participated in the survey and gave their opinions on the hospitals listed for the survey. The following parameters were used for rankings: competency of doctors, infrastructure/facilities available in the hospital, innovation in treatment, availability of multiple specialities, patient care and hospital environment (cleanliness/quietness).
The Ranking of Apollo Group Hospitals in various categories are listed below :
OVERALL BEST MULTI-SPECIALITY HOSPITALS IN INDIA
Apollo Hospitals Chennai – Ranked as the Best Private Sector Hospital in India
BEST SUPER SPECIALITY HOSPITALS IN INDIA IN CARDIOLOGY
Apollo Hospitals Chennai – Rank 2
BEST SUPER SPECIALITY HOSPITALS IN INDIA IN NEUROLOGY
Apollo Hospitals Chennai – Rank 6
BEST SUPER SPECIALITY HOSPITAL IN KOLKATA
Apollo Multispeciality Hospitals – Rank 1
BEST SUPER SPECIALITY HOSPITAL IN AHMEDABAD
Apollo Hospitals Ahmedabad – Rank 2
BEST SUPER SPECIALITY HOSPITAL IN DELHI
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals Delhi – Ranked 1 – the Best Private Sector Super-Speciality Hospital in Delhi
BEST SUPER SPECIALITY HOSPITAL IN CHENNAI
Apollo Hospitals Chennai – Rank 1 – the Best Super-Speciality Hospital in Chennai
BEST SUPER SPECIALITY HOSPITAL IN HYDERABAD
Apollo Health City Hyderabad – Rank 1 – the Best Super-Speciality Hospital in Hyderabad
BEST SUPER SPECIALITY HOSPITAL IN INDIA IN ONCOLOGY
Apollo Hospitals Chennai – Rank 3
BEST SUPER SPECIALITY HOSPITAL IN BHUBANESWAR
Apollo Hospitals Bhubaneswar – Rank 2
BEST MULTISPECIALITY HOSPITALS IN BENGALURU
Apollo Hospitals, Bannerghatta Road – Rank 2
The hospitals to be rated had been selected through rigorous research after evaluating more than 804 hospitals, across cities and disciplines, thus ensuring a fair chance for almost all hospitals to be featured in the list.
New Initiatives
Apollo Hospitals to launch 100 Sugar Clinics in the next 90 days !
Making diabetes management effective – the principle aim of the integrated diabetes management program of the hospital. Aimed at combating the menace of diabetes in India, Apollo group of hospitals will launch 100 Sugar Clinics around the country in 90 days. These clinics will manage the life cycle of a diabetic and work towards minimizing the associated morbidity and mortality. These clinics working on a specifically developed clinical pathway will offer standardized care to the diabetic patients.
India is grappling with lifestyle diseases such as hypertension, stroke, obesity and diabetes. But the problem is not just that, it is also estimated that over the next decade lifestyle diseases will grow at the faster rate than infectious diseases in the country. Diabetes in India is no longer considered an epidemic; it has crossed that level and now has become an exorbitantly growing large public health problem.
With sedentary lifestyle, the prevalence of diabetes in India has reached the point of 3.7% of the total population. In the 1970s, only 2.1% of the total Indian population living in urban areas was diabetic. Today that figure touches the mark of 12.1% for adults over the age of 20. The incidence is higher in the south than in the north, particularly in cities such as Chennai and Hyderabad, where about 16% of the population is diabetic. India has been referred as a diabetes capital of the World by the International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries as 1.4 million new cases of Diabetes get detected in the country each year.
With the sharp increase in the number of diabetic cases in the country, absence of proper facilities to manage this sugar disease is an additional challenge. It is estimated that India spends almost $21 billion on managing diabetes. The cost of managing the complications of this disease is in multiples of the actual cost of treatment of the disease. Diabetes reaches to the stage of complication due to lack of awareness, compliance, proper facilities and knowledge about multi-functional approach.
Controlling blood sugar levels, reducing the pharmaceutical requirement for controlling blood sugar levels, close monitoring and early intervention for complications of diabetes are important components of managing diabetes. This needs a holistic approach. In the absence of an integrated diabetes management program in India, Apollo group of Hospitals puts a foot forward in introducing an integrated mechanism that manages diabetes efficiently and prevents the complications of the disease. Sugar Clinics brings together a program that offers a 360 degree approach to managing diabetes. Sugar Clinics offer exclusive facilities catering to all the needs of a diabetic.
“Education and wellness management will help reduce the rising incidence of lifestyle diseases. One of these is Diabetes. Keeping in mind the rising burden of Diabetes, India would need an integrated framework that would enable diabetics manage their lifestyle better. This would ensure reduction and prevention of complications, which is a key for these patients.” says Dr Prathap C Reddy, Chairman, Apollo Group of Hospitals.
Apollo Sugar Clinic is a complete and integrated solution to manage diabetes and offers customized solutions to different sections of the diabetic population. Upload/Update of Sugar count on SMS/mobile application, personalized web page for each patient, and 24X7 call centres are some of the features of this program.
According to Ms. Sangita Reddy, Executive Director – Operations, Apollo Group of Hospitals “We are providing a truly world class diabetes disease management program at the Sugar Clinic by introducing evidence based practice as a formidable tool to decide on treatment strategies in diabetes. We are now embarking on a path to take Sugar Clinics nationwide. We have 13 fully functional facilities having Sugar Clinics and will have 100 of them up and running in the next 90 days.”
By introducing the Sugar Clinics in every nook and corner of the country, Apollo group of Hospitals puts forward their concern of providing a better quality of life for diabetes patients across the country.
Technology
Apollo Hospitals Chennai launches the Apollo Institute of Robotic Surgery, the first world class robotic centr...
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai launched the Apollo Institute of Robotic Surgery, bringing in the latest State of the Art “” da Vinci Si Robotic system””, the first of its kind in Tamil Nadu, in association with Vattikutti Foundation, Michigan, USA. This centre of excellence was inaugurated today by renowned award winning urologist, Dr. Mani Menon, Director of Vattikuti Institute of Urology, Henry Ford Hospital, USA. This multi-speciality, multi-modality Institute will offer Robot Assisted Surgeries of world-class standards at costs which would be a fraction of that compared to hospitals across advanced nations for similar services.
This new facility will focus on the most advanced form of minimally-invasive robotic surgery that leads to faster recovery, reduces hospital stay, ensures precision and accuracy. The Robotic Surgery is already being done for indications in Urology, Gynaecology, Bariatric Surgery and cardiac surgery for valve replacements and single-double vessel coronary artery bypass grafting.
From open surgery to laparoscopy, surgical technique has moved onto the next level of evolution – robotics. The greatest benefit of this cutting edge technique of Controlled Robotics is precision and accuracy that comes from a 3D High Definition Vision, superior magnification and an immersive view of the surgical field through tiny incisions of 1cm to 2 cm. The Endo Wrist Instruments with seven degrees of freedom offer a range of motion far greater than the human hand with reduction of hand tremor making the surgery far more precise with minimal trauma. and eventually allowing for quicker healing. The average blood loss in an open surgery is 400 to 500 ml, whereas in a robotic surgery, it is just 30 to 40 ml. 30% of patients who undergo prostatectomy through an open surgical technique require blood transfusion which is reduced to just 2-3% in patients undergoing the same procedure with Robotic Surgery. This technique, in addition to increased patient comfort and safety allows for reduced hospital stay and in turn reduced chances of infection.
In the last decade, Robotic Surgery has fast gained ground as a preferred surgery mode for select indications. Almost 80% of prostate cancer cases in the USA in the last decade have been done by robotics. Present on the occasion Dr. Prathap C Reddy, Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group said, “”Our collaboration with Vattikuti Foundation, USA is a step towards providing more and more patients in India the benefit of robotic surgery. Considering the numerous benefits that Robotic Surgery offers, we expect a sizeable patient flow benefitting from this facility from the very beginning. This alliance is integral for us as we partner with a healthcare institution that shares our values of maintaining international standards in healthcare delivery.”” The introduction of the Robotic Surgery Program is a significant value offering to all the patients globally and enhances Apollo’s position as a preferred Global healthcare provider.
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New Initiatives
Apollo Hospitals opens critical care unit with ICU facility at Sabarimala
Apollo Hospitals has set up a full-fledged critical care unit with ICU facility at Sabarimalai for the healthcare needs of devotees going to Lord Iyappa temple. The seven-bedded centre at Pamba was established based on the request made by Akhila Bharatha Iyappa Seva Sangam.
Already there is an Apollo Clinic cum information centre functioning at Pamba for Iyappa devotees. Since there was a request for starting full-fledged unit, the Apollo Hospitals Group chairman Dr.Prathap C. Reddy decided to set up a state-of-the art critical care unit there so that a devotee in emergency would get timely medical attention.
Dr.Rohini Sridhar, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Medical Services, Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Madurai, has said that the seven-bedded critical care centre at Pamba in Sabarimala is a 2,500 square feet facility which will be fully operational from November, 16, 2011.
Apollo clinic which was started in the year 2000 at Pamba had now grown to a 24-hour unit with ICU facility and it had provided timely care to nearly two lakh patients during the past 10 years. This unit will be connected with other major centres through telemedicine facility in order to get expert opinion for emergency cases.
Besides free consultation and ICU care, the Sabarimala devotees are also given medicines free of cost as a part of the Apollo Group’s corporate social responsibility.
Explaining about the critical care unit at Pamba in a simple function held here, the hospital’s Senior General Manager T.N. Sekar had informed that lakhs of people travel to Sabarimala during the pilgrim season every year and some of them face health problems due to unaccustomed exertion. Blisters on the feet and diarrhoea due to unsafe food are the common minor complaints while some devotees get serious ailments.
Leadership
Mrs. Preetha Reddy, Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Group has been listed as the 13th Most Powerful Woman ...
FORTUNE India ranks India’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Business, for the first time, in its November, 2011 issue. Managing Director, Mrs. Preetha Reddy has been ranked the 13th most powerful woman in Business in India !
Dibyendra Nath Mukerjea, editor of FORTUNE India, said, “”Indian women span generations and today we find them in every field. Acquisitions, garnering profits, successful new ventures, pioneering concepts, snagging mega deals…all important factors, no doubt, when defining power. We looked at the changes they brought in, and the way they transformed businesses. In the process, we made some surprising discoveries. But then, surprise was what we expected when we put together Fortune India’s first ranking of the most powerful women in India Inc.””
Pavan Varshnei, President of FORTUNE India, said, “”FORTUNE India’s Most Powerful Women in Business list is the most comprehensive ranking of influential women in Indian business.””
FORTUNE India is the only Indian magazine to win two merit awards from the Society of Publication Designers, New York, and besides that, a bronze award for infographics at the IFRA Annual Competition, earlier this year.
Milestones
Apollo Hospitals Chennai completes more than 100 epilepsy surgeries with a success rate of 70-100%. Apollo Ins...
Apollo Hospitals has come forward to propagate the fact, once considered a last resort for patients with few other treatment options; surgery is now a relatively safe and common therapeutic strategy for seizure control in epilepsy patients.
Epilepsy patients have become seizure free after targeted surgery to remove the epileptic focus with a high degree of success and excellent outcome. They attribute their improvement to better technology and the expert evaluation and operative and postoperative care at Apollo Speciality Hospital Chennai.
Epilepsy occurs in 1 among 150 people worldwide out of which 70% respond to drug treatment (3-5 years) where as the remaining 30% require evaluation in a difficult to treat epilepsy clinic by an epileptologist, as about half of them are likely to benefit from epilepsy surgery. Apollo Hospitals Chennai performed its first epilepsy surgery on a Sudanese boy on 15th August 1998. Since then more than 100 surgeries have been completed with a high success rate of more than 70-100% seizure freedom in the operated patients.
According to Dr.Prithika Chary, Senior Consultant Neurologist & Neuro Surgeon, Apollo Institute of Neurosciences, “Several options are open to epileptic patients, including proper and detailed evaluation and classification of their seizures, appropriate rational combinations of different antiepileptic drugs, implantation of a device called vagal nerve stimulator or resective surgery to remove the epileptic focus. Identification of such patients should be done as early as possible to give good results. Ideally, any patient whose seizures exceed two per month, in spite of taking two or more antiepileptic drugs, or who has limiting side effects due to medication is a suitable candidate to be examined in a “Difficult to treat epilepsy clinic”.
Dr.Chendilnathan, Consultant Neurosurgeon, Apollo Institute of Neurosciences, elaborates, “Surgery as an option of treatment for epilepsy is still an underused option, Apollo has made a huge difference in the lives of a 54 year old from Goa, and a 38 year old from Chennai through surgery and in the life of a 19 year old from Andhra Pradesh with expert drug treatment, among others. With the help of an operating wand (an advanced technology) that adds to the accuracy and safety of the surgery and also the operating microscope, these benefits may open the door for more epilepsy patients to see surgery as a viable option”.
The launch of a “Difficult to treat epilepsy clinic” will enable early referral and treatment of patients with persistent seizures, which has potential to irreversibly damage the brain, and offer hope to this select group of patients enabling them to live better.
Clinical Excellence
Organ transplants transforms lives of four individuals at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai
“Organ donation is the greatest form of human service; it is the noblest of deeds whereby the donor breathes life into another by donating healthy organs after death”. Being a pioneer in organ transplants Apollo Hospitals felt the urgent need to spread the above message.
53 year old Thilagavathy, an accident victim was brought to Apollo Hospitals Chennai for treatment on 18th October and was declared brain dead. With her family’s consent a team of highly skilled surgeon at Apollo Hospitals harvested and transplanted her organs in 4 other individuals. Out of them, a 63 year old woman who had heart transplant, is the oldest woman transplant recipient in India.
Dr.Paul Ramesh, Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Apollo Hospitals said, “Transplant program at Apollo has evolved from a sustained commitment to world class surgical expertise. It embraces the latest and the best technologies available in the international healthcare market, and also has highly trained professionals who offer supreme quality of treatment”.He also added that, “Mrs.Malathi Marathe came to Chennai 4 months ago, was treated for lung infection, worsening of heart failure and renal impairment. Until she received a compatible heart she was stabilized on heart failure medicines”.
Dr.Paul Ramesh explained, “Performing a transplant on senior citizens is a challenge because, older patients are mostly diabetic and are fraught with post-operative problems especially infection. The reserve in older patients is also less; they also tend to be much sicker, but Malathi made an impressive recovery and is due back to her native (Mumbai) in few days”.
Milestones
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Delhi successfully completes 200 Liver Transplants on patients from Pakistan !
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Delhi has successfully completed 200 Liver Transplant cases of Pakistani patients. With success rate of over 90%, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals created a milestone in the history of medicine by becoming the first hospital in the country to reach the 200 mark for patients from a single foreign country.
A Press Conference was organised by Apollo Delhi which was attended by Prof Anupam Sibal, Group Medical Director and Senior Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Apollo Hospitals, Dr Subash Gupta, Chief Liver Transplant Surgeon, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals and the families of the patients from Pakistan.
Addressing the press meet, Prof Anupam Sibal, Group Medical Director and Senior Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Apollo Hospitals Delhi said, “We are delighted that we have been able to touch so many patients from across the border”. From the time we performed successful liver transplant in India in 1998, the Apollo Transplant Program has performed 776 liver transplants in children and adults. Our experience with so many Pakistani patients and their families has taught us so much about Pakistani culture and the similarities between our societies is so striking.
During the conference, Prof Sibal and Prof. Gupta shared their experience of looking after the 200th Pakistani patient, Shehary, a 10 year old boy from Karachi in Pakistan who underwent a Liver Transplant surgery at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals on 6th October 2011.
Speaking on the occasion, Prof. Subash Gupta, Chief Liver Transplant Surgeon, Apollo Hospitals Delhi said, “It is a proud moment for us to have completed two hundred cases, we feel a sense of accomplishment by the faith and courage shown by our patients, who have travelled such long distances for the treatment.”
Shehary, the 200th patient from Pakistan who underwent Successful Liver Transplant surgery at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals is a 10 year old boy from Karachi in Pakistan was brought to Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in a critical condition. In the previous two months, Shehary was admitted to hospital due to increase in jaundice and vomiting of blood but there was no improvement in his condition. He was suffering from chronic liver disease for the past three years and despite maximal medical management his condition was not improving. His medical condition deteriorated to such an extent that he became drowsy and unresponsive to speech.
At Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, a multidisciplinary team of doctors led by, Prof Anupam Sibal, Senior Pediatric Gastroenterologist and Group Medical Director, Apollo Hospitals evaluated him and finally a successful Liver Tranplant was carried out by Prof Subash Gupta, Chief Liver Transplant Surgeon, wherein the part of the liver was donated by Shehary’s mother. Post transplant his jaundice has improved, he is no more unresponsive and has made a remarkable recovery and is ready to fly home.
Awards & Accolades
Dr. M.K. Mani, Chief Nephrologist, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, has been honoured with the Dhanvantari Award, 20...
Dr. M.K. Mani, pioneer in nephrology in the country and Chief Nephrologist at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, has been honoured with the 40th Dhanvantari Award. Dhanvantari Medical Foundation president and eminent cardiologist Dr.B.K. Goyal said that Dr. Mani pioneered innovative techniques and a new regimen in the management of kidney disorders.
Dr. Mani is the recipient of many awards, including the Padma Bhushan and the Rabindranath Tagore Award and has more than 125 publications to his credit. He has been awarded the honorary Doctorate of Science by several universities.
Dr. Mani became well-known after he gave a fresh lease of life to Jayaprakash Narayan, who was suffering from a kidney ailment and had a cardiac arrest at the Jaslok Hospital here, Dr. Goyal said.
The prestigious award, which recognises contribution in medical science, is awarded annually since 1972. The recipients include Denton A Cooley of Houston and pioneer heart transplant surgeon Christiaan Neethling Barnard of South Africa.
Awards & Accolades
Apollo Pharmacy has been awarded the Best Healthcare Retail Company of the Year- 2011 by Frost & Sullivan...
Alexandria-Frost & Sullivan 2011 India Excellence in Healthcare Awards seek to recognize companies and individuals that have pushed the boundaries of excellence, rising above the competition and demonstrating outstanding performance across South Asia.
Apollo Pharmacy has been awarded the Best Healthcare Retail Company of the Year 2011 under the Healthcare Delivery Awards category.
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