To ensure affordable, safe rooms overnight and clean environments, Apollo Hospitals has joined forces with Hindustan Unilever, State Bank of India, Deutsche Bank, Oyo Rooms, Lemon Tree, Ginger hotels and Zomato to launch a social impact initiative on isolation care called “Project Stay I” (Stay Isolated). The Apollo Hospitals Group took forward its comprehensive response plan to COVID-19, Project Kavach, which was announced on March 26 2020.

Apollo Hospitals Group has announced a new initiative – Project Kavach (shield) – a comprehensive and integrated response plan and approach to protect people across the nation from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The plan encompasses all aspects from information, preventive measures, online self-assessment for risk, testing, isolation/quarantine rooms, treatment and hospital beds, and ICU facilities for critically ill patients.
‘Never been seen in the last 100 years’

The team of doctors at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals performed a complicated liver transplant surgery on a 10-month-old, Baby Noor from Malaysia. Baby Noor, soon after birth had developed jaundice that advanced with time and was further diagnosed with biliary atresia, a rare liver and bile disease which has a ratio of 1:12000 in infants worldwide. In addition to this, Noor also had heterotaxy, an abnormal arrangement of the internal thoracic-abdominal organs across the left-right axis of the body.

Patients come together to mark a year of the Liver Transplantation Programme at Apollo Hospitals Chennai

Apollo Hospital Group and Apollo Endosurgery®, Inc.(Austin, Texas/USA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding as they launched the introduction of endoluminal surgery in India. Apollo Endosurgery® was cofounded with the Apollo Group, a unique collaboration of physicians from the Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins University, Medical University of South Carolina, the University of Texas Medical Branch and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai formed the largest human image of a human bone and created a Guinness World Record®.The initiative was undertaken to create awareness onknee diseases and arthritis. Over 948 people from all walks of life united to form the largest human image of a human bone, highlighting the need to address the rise in osteoarthritis and knee disease. The event saw participants from Navi Mumbai, Mumbai and Thane as well as surrounding districts participate in creating the formation of the knee joint with immense enthusiasm.

Dr. Latha Kanchi Parthasarathy, Consultant Neonatologist, Apollo Children’s Hospitals along with her team played a crucial role in Baby Nethran’s care through an eight-month battle. Baby Nethran underwent a series of procedures and chemotherapy at the Apollo Children’s Hospitals throughout his treatment period. Baby Nethran was born on 9th November 2018 in Chennai as a pre-term baby within eight months of conception.

Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata has launched Eastern India’s First and most advanced comprehensive Foot and Ankle Clinic in a hospital setting in presence of ATK players Edu Garcia, Roy Krishna and Pritam Kotal.

Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore has launched India’s first dedicated Robot-Assisted Cardiac Surgery Unit; a milestone in the history of cardiovascular surgery in the country. The Robot-Assisted Cardiac Surgery Unit will offer patients with complex cardiac disease treatment with robotic assisted minimally invasive cardiac surgery. The Robot-Assisted Cardiac Surgery Unit will be equipped with the advanced fourth-generation versatile ‘da Vinci Xi’ robotic surgical system and a dedicated team, led by Dr.

Apollo Hospitals, Bhubaneswar performed the first ever cadaveric transplant in Odisha on February 4, 2020. The whole process of organ retrieval and transplantation was conducted by the team of Apollo Hospitals. The family of the donor was counselled regarding organ transplantation and it was their generosity that made them consent for donation. After a marathon surgery of six hours, the team of doctors in Apollo Hospitals, Bhubaneswar successfully conducted the first cadaveric kidney transplant in the state of Odisha.