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2015 to 2016

Apollo Growth Story

Since its inception, Apollo Hospitals has seen three decades and each has brought with it, its own share of cherished memories.

2015 to 2016

2015

  • Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata, launches 36 specialty clinics
  • Apollo Health and Lifestyle Ltd. expands its footprint with the acquisition of Nova Specialty Hospitals
  • Chennai’s IT corridor gets its first Digital Hospital- Apollo Speciality Hospital, OMR
  • Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata launches India’s first Cellvizio System
  • Inauguration of Medskills learning Hub at Chennai
  • Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, performs a Presbyopia implant for the first time in South India
  • Peace Clinic – Indian doctors to assist Pakistani counterparts in transplant procedures
  • India’s First Centre of Excellence in Hip Arthroscopy launched
  • Apollo Hospitals saves the life of 3 individuals; achieves the feat of transplanting the liver of a single donor into two adult recipients; successfully performs an isolated
  • Intestinal transplantation and transplants the abdominal wall- the first ever case in South India, all from the organs of a single donor
  • Apollo Hospitals, Chennai completed the highest number of Combined Heart and Double
  • Lung Transplants in India and also successfully performed a Combined Heart and Lung Transplant on the second oldest patient in the world
  • Twice Reborn, a liver transplant at Apollo Hospitals Chennai saved the life of Mrs. Babitha
  • Apollo Hospitals inaugurated The Centre for Colorectal Diseases, a first-of-its-kind, integrated multidisciplinary centre in Asia
  • Apollo Hospitals, Chennai won the Australian Service Excellence Award for 2015 for its high standards of Management, training and commitment to Excellence
  • Apollo Hospitals, Chennai Performs First TAVR – Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
  • Asia’s first en-bloc combined heart and liver transplant
  • The Government of India launches a health service – SEHAT (Social Endeavour for Health and Telemedicine) along with Apollo Hospitals, with a goal to connect 60,000 Common Service Centres (CSCs) across the country to a common network
  • Apollo Health City, Hyderabad wins the Best Medical Tourism Facility awarded by Hon’ble President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi
  • Apollo Hospitals honoured with the Versatile 100 and CIO100 Innovation Architect Special Award 2015 by the CIO Magazine
  • In a first-of-its-kind in India, Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad treats a critically ill 11-days-old baby with a complex and rare cardiac surgery
  • Apollo Hospitals and IRCTC sign MoU to boost medical tourism
  • Apollo Hospitals launches Ask Apollo – a first of its kind medical platform in the country for remote patient care
  • Apollo Hospitals, Chennai successfully performs a new technique – Attune Rotating Platform Knee Replacement, a first of its kind in South India
  • Apollo Children’s Hospital, Chennai successfully cures Hypertension in a child with rare tumor through a Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS), a first of its kind in India
  • Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi performs a Split Liver Transplant in two adults, a first in the city and second in the country
  • Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi inaugurates the first Telemedicine link between India and Central Asia and witnesses Apollo Delhi Teleconsultation
  • Apollo Hospitals, Chennai successfully performed a surgery using a new implant for Geriatric Orthopedic care, a first-of-its-kind in South India
  • The King of football, Pele inaugurated the Leukemia Ward of Apollo Gleneagles Cancer Hospital, Kolkata on October 13, 2015
  • Apollo Hospitals, Chennai won top awards at the National Business Excellence (BE) Star Awards organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry
  • The Week-Nielsen Best Hospitals survey 2015 ranks Apollo Hospitals, Chennai as the Best Multi-Specialty Private Hospital in India
  • Apollo Hospitals, Chennai harvested 23 valuable organs from 5 brain dead donors, and performs 5 liver transplants, 1 heart transplant and 4 kidney transplants at our own hospital, and transported 1 heart, 6 cornea and 6 kidneys safely to other hospitals in a 36-hour team effort
  • Launch of Apollo Diagnostics – a chain providing pathology testing services using state-of-the-art equipments
  • Acquisition of Nova Specialty Hospitals (now Apollo Spectra) – short stay, day-care surgery centers
 

2016

  • Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata, inaugurates the First Comprehensive Respiratory Intensive Therapy Unit in Eastern India
  • Apollo Specialty Hospitals, Trichy launched the Heart Assist Clinic, a first-of-its-kind in the Delta Region
  • Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road, Chennai launches Apollo Stroke Net, a first-of-its-kind multi city and comprehensive stroke model in India
  • Apollo Hospitals, Ahmedabad wins the Smartest Hospital Building 2016 award at the Network 18 and Honeywell Smart Building Awards 2016
  • Apollo Hospitals, Madurai wins the Karunya CSR Excellence Award 2016
  • Apollo Specialty Hospitals, Madurai successfully performs the first Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) in South Tamil Nadu
  • Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata, has been recognized by the American College of Cardiology as the First International Centre of Excellence in India
  • Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road, Chennai won the best Multi-Specialty hospital at the ICICI Lombard & CNBC-TV18 Healthcare Awards 2015 – 2016
  • Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Madurai performs an ABO incompatible Kidney transplantation
  • Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata performs the first Cadaver Liver transplant in the entire Eastern India
  • Apollo Hospitals, Ahmedabad is the first hospital in Gujarat to be Internationally Accredited by Joint Commission International (JCI)
  • Dr. Yash Gulati and Dr. Subhash Gupta of Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, conferred with Dr. B.C. Roy National Award for their extraordinary contribution made to society
  • Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, enters the prestigious Guinness World Records for the highest number of participants in a hand sanitizing relay
  • Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road, Chennai broadcasted a live, complex Angioplasty procedure at the 12th Annual C3 Conference, 2016
  • Apollo Hospitals, introduced OrthAlign, a new technique for knee replacement surgery Shri Nara Chandrababu Naidu inaugurates the world class Apollo Hospitals, Visakhaptnam, at Healthcity, Arilova
  • Apollo Hospitals Ahmedabad accredited by JCI – First in Gujarat
  • Apollo Hospitals, Chennai successfully performs, “Only Pancreas transplant for the first time in India
  • Mr. Byrappa, Mayor, Mysuru City Corporation inaugurates the Apollo Cardiovascular Symposium at Apollo BGS Hospitals, Mysuru
  • Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata, launches 36 specialty clinics
  • Shri Chandrababu Naidu launches Electronic Urban Health Centres (CMUHC) to serve healthcare needs of the urban poor of Andhra Pradesh
  • Apollo Life joins hands with Deepak Chopra to launch Apollo JIYO
  • Apollo Hospitals, Chennai and Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi bag the top 2 positions in the All India Multispeciality Hospital Survey 2016 conducted by Times Health
  • First Percutaneous TAVI (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation) was successfully performed
  • Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata, successfully performs Cochlear Implantation on a 5-year-old, a first-of-its-kind for Eastern India
  • Datar Genetics Ltd joins hands with Apollo Hospitals to provide Precision Oncology
  • Apollo Group of Hospitals works with Google to add health information to the Knowledge Graph in India, a first-of-its-kind in the country
  • Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata becomes the first in Eastern India to introduce SpyGlass, a breakthrough innovation in Cholangioscopy
  • Apollo Children’s Hospital, Chennai performs India’s first combined cardiac and tracheal surgery on 11-month-old baby from Oman
  • Apollo Specialty Hospitals, Vanagaram launches CrossBoss Catheter for the first time in Tamil Nadu
  • One-year-old child from Kenya undergoes unusual liver transplant in Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Delhi
  • Apollo Hospitals Group successfully completes 1,50,000 open heart surgeries

UPDATED ON 28/03/2024

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