As a result of the tie up, patients and their attendants from over 19 countries across the Middle East and Africa can come to the hospital’s flagship locations in Chennai, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Kolkata, Ahmadabad and Bangalore to avail specially formulated fares for round-trip flights with Emirates.

The first ABO-incompatible kidney transplant at the Apollo hospitals Chennai was done by using the Immune adsorption columns to reduce the specific blood group antibody titer before the ABO-incompatible transplant. This is the first case in the country using column adsorption of blood group antibodies .
What is Column Adsorption Technology?

The Apollo Foot Care [Electronic Baropaedometer & Insole Maker] Service launched at Apollo Hospitals Chennai has been commenced to help in diagnosis of foot and ankle pains & production of thermoformed plantar insoles to treat them by introducing biomechanical corrections. It would deal with patients not only with foot problems [that may include lower kinetic chain problem, neuropathy, orthopaedic problems] but also fitness, sports, athletes and everyday walker. In short it would cater to both the ends of clientele illness as well as wellness.

Baby Samreen Fatima, suffering from an inherited condition – progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC) underwent a Liver Transplant at Apollo Hospitals, Delhi. Samreen’s father Malik Sarsa Khan, a Pakistani driver, donated 20% of his liver to his daughter.
Malik Khan had lost five children before. So when his daughter (3), who was born seven years after the death of his last child, was diagnosed with liver cancer, he decided to “”beg, borrow or steal”” to fund her liver transplant surgery in India.

Dr. Prathap C Reddy, Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group announced forward looking leadership reorganization at Apollo aimed at furthering its strategic goals and achieving accelerated growth over the next five years while continuing to remain focused on its core of clinical excellence.

Apollo Hospitals and Fiji National University jointly organized the first “”Fiji – Health for all Medical Symposium””, at the Pasifika Auditorium, Fiji National University, Suva, on July 27, 2014.

Apollo Hospitals launches robot-assisted procedures as a better alternative to laparoscopy for Bariatric Surgery.
Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, Dr. Rajkumar Palaniappan, consultant, Apollo Hospital, said that robotic surgery provided good or even better results than laparoscopy. The downside was it would cost at least Rs.1.75 lakh more than a laparoscopic procedure.
Advantages

Surgeons at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai successfully attempted a multi-organ transplant, giving a middle-aged man a new liver, intestine and pancreas, on Thursday. The liver, intestine and pancreas of a 12-year-old boy, who was declared brain-dead, were transplanted to the recipient in a marathon 14-hour surgery.

Chairman Dr Reddy announces a comprehensive non communicable disease screening programme at the Third Annual Conference of the Global Association of Physicians of Indian Origin. Physicians of Indian origin from across the globe congregated at the third annual conference of the Global Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (GAPIO) in Kochi, Kerala, with a vision to improve healthcare worldwide. GAPIO was launched in January 2011 to bring together 1.2 million physicians of Indian origin in the world on one professional platform.

Pyaare Lal, a 54-year-old man who was suffering from kidney failure, is a health man now! His elder brother offered to donate one of his kidneys. However, a blood group mismatch rendered their kidneys incompatible. But for doctors at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Delhi, that was not a restraint at all ! They conducted the transplant using the incompatible kidney, successfully and gave the patient a new lease of life !