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.

Apollo Cancer Institute, Chennai urges people to kick tobacco chewing and smoking habits and organizes activities in collaboration with Madras Road Transport Corporation to create awareness on Oral & Lung cancer on the occasion of “”World No Tobacco”” day on May 31st.

S.N. Bhatt (now 94 years) and Vijay Laxmi Bhatt (now 87) who underwent Total Knee Replacement at Apollo Hospitals Delhi have become the oldest couple in the country to undergo bilateral total knee replacement (TKR) in a single sitting.

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 !

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.

Dr Ananthakrishnan Sivaraman, Consultant Urologist has been conferred a Special Achievement Award in Robotic Surgery by the Bengal Urological Society at Bengal Urology Society Conference( BUSCON) as part of their 50th Anniversary celebrations held in Kolkata. The award was given by Ms Chandrima Bhattacharya, Health Minister of Bengal on November 24th 2013.
The award has been given as recognition to his efforts in initiating, facilitating and mentoring robotic surgeons in Kolkata over the past one year.

Apollo Hospitals, Chennai has successfully performed a combined heart and double lung transplant on the oldest recipient recorded in the country’s medical history. The department of Cardiothoracic surgery at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai performed this rare surgery on a 67 year old, the patient is now on the road to complete recovery. Surgeries of this kind are very complex and rare and over the last 2 years only one patient over the age of 65 received a combined heart and lung transplant, anywhere in the world.

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.

To mark the International Nurses Day on 12 May 2012, Apollo Group of Hospitals organized the 3rd National Nursing Conclave 2012 at Apollo Hospitals Bangalore, in association with innovative products maker and research and development leader 3M, to help nurses, their leaders and educators build confidence in the complex medical environment and meet patient expectations in a holistic manner. This will be followed by two days of leadership summit. Dr E. V. Ramana Reddy, Secretary – Health and Family Welfare, Government of Karnataka was the chief guest for the conclave.

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.