In a rare case, an 86-year-old lady who herself was a doctor, became one of the oldest cadaveric donors in Delhi. A resident of South Delhi, the lady was declared brain dead on 12th September late at night, in another hospital, after suffering from an acute stroke. The family expressed her wish of donating her liver and kidney, at the time of her death.

In what might be called a miracle, a 16-year-old boy who suffered from a severe electric shock was brought back to life after coming in contact with a high voltage live wire that had fallen on an iron railing, at his shop. The incident occurred in Old Delhi when the boy was inspecting damage caused to his shop due to heavy rains that lashed the city.

In a development that brings new hope to cancer patients in Eastern India, Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals has launched the advanced HalcyonTM Radiation Therapy System for optimized image-guided radiotherapy to deliver high quality cancer treatment. The Halcyon system introduced to Eastern India for the first time uses human-centered design to deliver sophisticated, highly targeted cancer treatments with high precision and accuracy, at a speed that is up to four time faster than standard technology.

A team of doctors at Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, accomplished a near miracle by saving a mother and child, from a highly critical health condition. The mother, into her 7th month of pregnancy, developed COVID and had to be treated on ventilator. To save the baby, a pre-term delivery was performed on her despite the mother’s condition. Both mother and baby were discharged hail and healthy. This was a first-of-its-kind care in this part of the world, where a 7-month preterm baby was delivered from a mother undergoing infertility care, while being ventilated for COVID.

Mr. Dadasaheb Patil, a 56-year-old resident of Sangli, Maharashtra, successfully underwent a heart transplant surgery at Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai. The heart was harvested from a 31-year-old cadaver donor and transported through a green corridor specially. The transport of the donor heart from Lower Parel to Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai took just 25 minutes for covering a distance of 45 kilometres. The Heart Transplant team led by Dr. Sanjeev Jadhav, Consultant – Heart and Lung Transplant Surgeon, transplanted it into the recipient at Apollo Hospitals.

The Apollo Hospitals Group has launched Post-COVID Recovery Clinics across the hospital network. The Post-COVID Recovery Clinics will address the rising number of patients who have recovered from COVID but are suffering from the mid and long term persistent effects of the infection. Over 50% of COVID patients suffer from problems that include breathlessness, chest pain and heart issues, joint pains, vision problems, and memory loss months after contracting the novel coronavirus.

Apollo Hospitals Group has joined the UAE’s Waterfalls Initiative for Continuous Education from UAE. This unique initiative aims to train health and medical professionals around the world and empower them through building and strengthening their capabilities. The Apollo Hospitals Group will support the Waterfall Initiative’s educational program that includes specialized lectures, seminars and workshops on vital topics in medicine, pharmacology, nutrition, public health, nursing, dentistry, and hospital management.

CSIR-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB) and Apollo Hospitals have tied up for joint manufacturing and commercialization of an innovative dry swab test, Direct Amplification rapid RT-PCR (DArRT-PCR) – for SARS-CoV-2 detection. The test has been developed by CSIR-CCMB and the collaboration with Apollo Hospitals will focus on scaling up manufacturing and commercialization of the tests jointly. The rapid, safe and cost-effective DArRT-PCR tests will be available nationally through the Apollo Hospitals network.

Apollo Specialty Hospitals, Vanagaram has successfully performed three multi-disciplinary complicated procedures on a 35-year-old patient, who had an Ischemic stroke. Mr. Ramkumar, from Chennai was brought to Apollo Specialty Hospitals, Vanagaram with a sudden inability to use his left arm and leg and with symptoms of facial paralysis. He was brought into the hospital in a drowsy condition and was only able to respond to doctor’s queries feebly. He had a vision loss in his left eye and also his eye was deviated to the right side.

Apollo Hospitals, Indore has achieved a milestone by becoming the first daycare centre in the country for both knee and hip replacement, that allows the patient to be discharged on the same day. The daycare hip replacement surgery, which is the first in Central India and the second in the country, was successfully performed on a 30-year-old female who was suffering from severe pain in both hip joints for past three years.