A 42-year-old man who got his right hand crushed by a machine that bends iron, has regained the use of his fingers after six months of battling pain, regret and the prospect of permanent disability. The initial prognosis was that the damaged hand might have to be amputated. However, doctors at Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata saved his hand by successfully performing a complicated surgery.

In a rare surgery, doctors at a Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata extracted a tooth from the nasal cavity of a 29-year-old Kolkata man, who works in UAE.
Mr. Obaidullah Ahsan had been suffering from cold, discharge from nose and headache for years. He started having intense pain a few months ago after the problem got aggravated. After he flew down to Kolkata last week for medical help, doctors found that a full-grown tooth in his nasal cavity was the trigger behind the problem. The tooth was finally extracted on November 19 and Ahsan flew back to his workplace in UAE.

Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata saved a 74-year-old man’s life by removing a tumour from the windpipe. The tumour was in the thyroid gland and had penetrated to the windpipe, if left untreated the tumour would have grown in size and blocked the entire airway. It was a challenge for the doctors to operate on the windpipe but our competent doctors at Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata performed the tricky surgery which involved removing a portion of the windpipe and reconstructing it, after removal of tumour.

A first-of-its-kind in the coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh, Neuro Navigation system was inaugurated by City Mayor Ms. Sunkara Pavani at Apollo Hospitals, Kakinada. The Mayor complimented Apollo Hospitals’ management for equipping the hospital with the most advanced computer aided navigation system, which helps in conducting brain tumor removals and spinal surgeries with more accurate and minimally invasive techniques. Rural MLA Ms. Pilli Anantha Lakshmi Satyanarayana Murty, inaugurated the new Neuro operation theatre.

Hearing loss impacts one throughout life. While people with mild to moderate amount of hearing loss can cope with this disability with the help of hearing aids, the ones who suffer from severe to profound hearing loss require cochlear implants to deal with the deafness. If the hearing loss is not treated early enough, the children born with hearing loss will not develop normal speech and language. Diagnosed at birth with severe hearing loss in both his ears, the baby is a resident of Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi.

Mr. Anutosh Mishra now aged 53-year-old suffers from Ankylosing Spondylitis, a form of arthritis that primarily affects the spine. Mr. Anutosh, a bank employee was suffering from severe back pain and stiffness in both his hips because of which he couldn’t walk for the last 15 years. In order to treat this condition, Dr. Havind Tandon, Senior Consultant, Orthopaedics & Joint Replacement and his team operated him with both side hip replacement surgeries at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals on 1st January 2019.

A team of experts at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi successfully blessed Mrs. Jane Gumbo, aged 42 with a new lease of life. Mrs. Gumbo is from Tanzania and duly serves the nation as a Police officer. She weighed 123 kgs and was suffering from deep vein thrombosis, clot in heart and pulmonary embolism. She had a big ball like clot in her heart which was in the ventricle almost at the verge of blocking the pulmonary artery (the main artery which goes from heart to the lung) and lungs were studded with blood clots.

Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata has launched a dedicated Department of Comprehensive Hernia surgery. The department will address treatment of all kinds of hernias from the simple to the extreme, complex ones through the most modern surgical techniques. Hernia is basically a gap in the muscles and fascia of the abdominal wall through which the inner contents, small and/or large intestine, stomach, bladder etc, may protrude out from the abdomen, below the skin.

On February 15, 2019, Apollo Hospitals Group has offered free treatment to the injured troopers of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), who survived the terror blast in Pulwama district’s Awantipora town, Kashmir on February 14, 2019.
“We offer to treat the CRPF troopers injured in the terror attack till recovery and rehabilitation at any of our hospitals across the country,” said Dr. Prathap C. Reddy, Founder and Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group.

The Apollo Hospital Group announced the formal release of a postal stamp on Preventive Healthcare by Shri Banwarilal Purohit, Hon’ble Governor of Tamil Nadu. The commemorative stamp honours and acknowledges the Chairman of Apollo Hospitals; Dr. Prathap C Reddy’s pioneering efforts in encouraging preventive healthcare in India.
Shri R Anand, Postmaster General, Chennai City, Ms. Preetha Reddy, Vice Chairperson Apollo Hospitals and Ms. Suneeta Reddy, Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals attended the special occasion at the Raj Bhavan, Chennai