In an extremely rare case of Budd Chiari Syndrome with Biliary Atresia, doctors at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Delhi saved the life of a 5-month-old baby girl Surampudi Sehitha from Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh. The baby developed jaundice when she was just one month old. Her condition worsened as her abdomen started distending due to progressive swelling.

Nirali Memorial Medical Trust (NMMT), established by Mr. A. M. Naik, Group Chairman, Larsen and Toubro, will set up a multispeciality hospital at Navsari in Gujarat. The multispeciality hospital will be operated and managed by Apollo Hospitals Group. The agreement to this effect was signed by Mr. Naik and Dr Prathap C Reddy, Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group.
Named in the memory of Nirali, granddaughter of Mr. Naik who passed away due to cancer at the age of two. NMMT was set up by Mr. Naik and family to help needy patients without access to quality medical treatment.

The team of doctors at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Delhi successfully performed a dual lobe liver transplant on a patient from Yemen, in which parts of liver from two donors were grafted in to the recipient’s body.
Mr. Al Naqeeb, a Yemeni national patient who was suffering from end-stage liver disease, was told by doctors that he needed a liver transplant. All three of his children offered to donate a part of their organ to save their father. However, as Mr. Naqeeb’s son was obese, he was ruled out as a potential donor.

The Neurology department of Apollomedics Super Specialty Hospital, Lucknow saved the life of an aneurysm patient by performing a critical surgery.

TAVR or Trans Catheter Aortic Valve Replacement, a percutaneous procedure, was successfully performed at Apollo Hospitals, Visakhapatnam on a 69-year-old man; where open heart valve replacement surgery was contraindicated due to co-existing health issues including past history of cardiac bypass surgery.

A 2-day-old male baby, suffering from a rare bleeding disorder, was saved by the Peadiatric and Neonatology team at Apollomedics Supper Speciality Hospitals, Lucknow. Dr Mritunjai Kumar, Paediatrician along with Dr. Shefalika, Dr. Shivani, Dr. Indrapal and Dr. Sidharth conducted the treatment of this rare disease called Christmas disease at Apollomedics Hospitals Lucknow.

Samsung India Electronics and Apollo Hospitals Group has launched the ‘Samsung-Apollo Mobile Clinic’ to provide access to quality, preventive healthcare against growing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to the less privileged. With this program, the two organisations aim to leverage technology to ensure citizens in rural areas in need of healthcare have access to it.

Things were not going too well with the health of the 59-year-old Mr. Devaraj who visited Dr. Rajkumar P. Wadhwa – Chief Gastroenterologist & Head of Department of Gastro Sciences, Apollo BGS Hospitals, Mysore on 13th April 2019. He was diagnosed with severe jaundice and fever, further evaluation revealed a large stone that was blocking the bile duct which was life threatening. This stone could not be operated upon.

 
Doctors at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals saved the life of a three-week-old baby girl Inaya from a rare heart condition known as Anomalous Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery (ALCAPA). A resident of Bulandshahr, Inaya presented with complaints of respiratory distress with excessive sweating and fast breathing with difficulty. When her parents brought her to the emergency department of Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi the child suffered from a heart attack, which means, her heart stopped beating.

As part of Microsoft’s AI Network for Healthcare initiative, Microsoft India and Apollo Hospitals Group have set up a National Clinical Coordination Committee (NCCC) for the AI-powered Cardiovascular Disease Risk Score API (application program interface). The committee consists of leading doctors from Apollo Hospitals; All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi; and King George’s Medical University, Lucknow.