Over 190 cancer survivors came together on Rose Day to spread the message that cancer is conquerable. Apollo Speciality Cancer Hospital, Teynampet,Chennnai which brought the patients and the doctors together held this program to share their support and join the fight against cancer along with the patients.
Survivors who shared anecdotes, addressed the gathering on their fight against cancer, elaborated on how positive attitude, will power and strong support system played a crucial role in their recovery.

Baby of Shaheen (name changed for privacy) had a very abnormal right side heart valve (Tricuspid valve) called Ebstein’s Anomaly, where the valve is abnormal and leaks profusely. He also had atresia of pulmonary valve, which meant that no blood flow was going to his lung from the heart for oxygenation. This life threatening abnormality was detected by the doctors at Apollo Hospitals Hyderabad when the baby was still in the womb through a fetal echocardiography.

Apollo Hospitals group is venturing into homecare leveraging its domain strength to make high quality integrated healthcare accessible to the community at large and more specifically to the elderly, chronically ill patients, post-surgery recovery patients etc., who will now receive personalized attention from well- trained and qualified healthcare providers right within the comfortable environs of their homes. By the end of next year, Apollo Homecare will rapidly spread its operations to 13 more cities.

The King of football, Pele spent time with the Apollo Gleneagles Cancer Hospital team (AGHL) on 12th &13th October, 2015 and responded to the queries on Sports injury and the facilities of Sports Medicine in Kolkata. He recounted the painful moments of his injuries during his time and congratulated Apollo Gleneagles Hospital, Kolkata on creating world class Sports Medicine facilities.
Pele autographed on footballs for distribution amongst the children getting treatments suffering from Leukemia at Apollo Gleneagles Cancer Hospital, Kolkata.

 
A Joint initiative by Southern Railways and Apollo Hospitals, the Emergency Medical Care Centre, supported by an ACL (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) ambulance and a first of its kind battery charged ambulance buggy to ferry patients, will be equipped to stabilize emergency cases arising at the station

On the occasion of World Diabetes Day, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi conducted a walkathon to present a united stand against diabetes inside the hospital premises on November 14, 2015. The walk was followed by a complimentary diabetes screening test. Special Sugar screening offers were provided to individuals along with consultation services at low costs where people got their blood sugars tested. A team of doctors also provided information on how to spot early signs of diabetes.

Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata launches the “Department of Sports Medicine”
Built with a vision to improve athletes’ health and safety, Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals launched their Sports medicine unit, focused on implementing the best practices. Powered by the strengths of both knowledge and technology, Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, is vastly improving efforts to protect the health and safety of not only the professional athletes but also of the general population.

While still considered an innovative and highly skilled technique, robotic prostate removal surgery seems to have paved its place as a widespread prostate cancer treatment. Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals in their effort to increase awareness about the advantages of Robotic Surgery as a better treatment for various cancers, organised an interactive session with world renowned urologist Prof ProkarDasgupta who shared his expertise and insights on the advancement of robotics globally.

The Apollo hosoitals group’s annual nursing conclave was themed ‘What got us here won’t get us there’ and witnessed key thought leaders from the government and healthcare fraternity deliberate, debate and discuss how India can address the healthcare skill gap & empower nursing fraternity to take higher clinical responsibilities & also work as an empowered team to improve patient outcome and reduce cost.

While frontline staff have to brave difficult terrain, harsh weather conditions, wildlife and poachers in their daily lives, forest-fringe communities are also faced with issues of human-wildlife conflict, and extreme climatic events for which medical assistance is required. The tie-up between Apollo Hospitals Foundation and WWF, India continues after one year of partnership.