Apollo Hospitals Group partners with Anatomiz3D Medtech Pvt Ltd. for design and printing of complex implants. Apollo Hospitals and Anatomiz3D would take the lead in a pioneering initiative to establish Hospital 3D-printing labs in India for 3D printed implants that would enable doctors to visualize and print implants for complicated cases. The first of these would be launched at Apollo Health City, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad.

Apollo Cancer Centres proudly launched the “The Power to fight Breast Cancer is in Your Hands” campaign, which illustrates the importance of regular self-breast examination and screening on this International Women’s Day. Ms Radikaa Sarathkumar presided over the campaign by launching the digital platform for breast self-examination along with Ms Preetha Reddy, Vice Chairperson, Apollo Hospitals Group.

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Apollo Hospitals Group has notched up yet another milestone with the successful completion of four back-to-back MitraClip procedures in one single day. The MitraClip implants were carried out on four patients suffering from severe heart failure, surpassing Japan where MitraClip procedures were performed on three patients in a single day. The four back-to-back MitraClip procedures were performed at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai by Dr Sai Satish, Senior Interventional Cardiologist.

Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai, has successfully performed four liver transplants following COVID-19 recovery. The four patients were diagnosed with end stage liver disease, following which 3 patients underwent living donor liver transplant and 1 deceased donor liver transplant. Post the liver transplant all the patients have recovered and are doing well.

Apollomedics Super Specialty Hospital, Lucknow is the first private hospital in the state (excluding NCR region) to perform successful liver transplant surgery. Honorable Chief Minister of the State Shri. Yogi Adityanath inaugurated the Apollomedics Liver Transplant Program. Now, Liver transplant patients will have access to an advanced Liver transplant facility in Lucknow itself, for which previously, people had to travel to other states.

A 46-year-old resident of Navi Mumbai, Mr. Rajesh, successfully underwent a heart transplant surgery at Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai. He received the heart from a 52-year-old woman, a deceased donor. The patient, with severe heart failure, had been on the heart transplant waiting list for six months and was admitted around eight times with intractable heart failure during this period. While his life was saved each time, a heart transplant was the only hope and with no organ available in Mumbai, he decided to go to Chennai for a heart transplant.

On the occasion of World Health Day, the Apollo Hospitals Group unveiled a report on the Health of the Nation that puts a spotlight on how the last two decades have seen a steady rise in non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The contribution of NCDs as the top causes of death in India has risen to a staggering 64.9% as compared to communicable diseases, maternal and other causes that dropped to 25%.

Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad has successfully performed a complex combined liver and kidney transplant, using organs from two different living donors, for the first time in India. The Complex surgery was performed by Dr Manish Varma, Chief Transplant Surgeon and Dr Naveen Polavarapu, Chief Transplant Hepatologist at Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, on a fifty-seven-year-old Tanzanian patient, Mr. Gabriel Ceaser Sisa. The uniqueness of the case was further compounded by the usage of a non-matching blood group organ, the liver.

Apollo Proton Cancer Centre has launched a dedicated Robot-Assisted Cancer Surgery Unit so that it could offer all its patients comprehensive cancer care under one roof. Apollo Proton Cancer Centre also successfully performed its first robotic procedure on a 40-year-old patient. The Robot-Assisted Cancer Surgery unit is equipped with the advanced fourth-generation ‘Da Vinci Surgical System’ and a dedicated team, led by Dr. Ajit Pai, Senior Consultant and Lead surgeon, GI Oncology.

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Apollo Hospitals and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories (Dr. Reddy’s) has launched a limited pilot program for the Sputnik V vaccine as part of the soft launch by Dr. Reddy’s in India. The first phase of vaccination program was started in Hyderabad on May 17, 2021 and in Visakhapatnam on May 18, 2021 at separate facilities at the Apollo Hospitals in those cities. The vaccination program followed all the SOPs as recommended by the Government including registration on CoWIN.