A 93-year-old patient underwent a life-saving surgery after he was found to have multiple severe blocks in the arteries supplying blood to his brain and right carotid artery as it was 99% blocked. The patient was having frequent episodes of falls and giddiness and was suffering from hypertension and bronchial asthma for long years.

Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd. has acquired a hospital in Gurugram, situated on hospital zoned land, with a potential of 650 beds.

The parents of a four-month-old baby flew 5000 km from Mauritius to Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai for treatment of a life-threatening heart defect that had left the baby unable to feed and was leading to congestive cardiac failure. The baby was a suspected case of congenital rubella syndrome that had caused Patent Ductus Arteriosus, a birth defect of the heart. As a result of the defect, the infant’s heart had a volume overload with congestive cardiac failure.

Apollo Proton Cancer Centre has performed two unique robotic assisted surgeries to save lives of Bangladeshi patients suffering from cancer. Robot-assisted surgery integrates advanced technology with the experience of skilled surgeons to help the patient to have a smoother and faster recovery from major operations, reduces instances of infections, and patient’s length of stay at the facility.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between Apollo Hospitals Group and Eclipse Group, Africa, to establish a cancer treatment center in the Msasani area, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. With this partnership, Apollo Hospitals will provide healthcare services with advanced cancer care treatments.

Apollo Hospitals Group is to set-up a state-of-the-art tertiary care hospital in partnership with Balmer Healthcare, the leading caregiver in Kenya. This partnership will provide quality healthcare for over 47 million people in Kenya and neighboring regions. The state-of-the-art tertiary care hospital will offer comprehensive care in over 20 specialties to Kenyan patients across all age groups, from pediatric to adult. Apollo Hospitals’ highly experienced medical specialists, supported by Balmer Healthcare, will enhance access to complex procedures and treatments for Kenyans.

Apollo Hospitals, Chennai has introduced Cryo Balloon Ablation technology, that offers a solution to a complex and common cardiac rhythm disorder called Atrial Fibrillation. Apollo Hospitals Chennai has successfully performed the first Cryo Balloon Ablation in Chennai on a 64-year-old female patient. As a first in India, the hospital also implanted a Left Atrial Appendage Closure (LAAC) Device on a 52-year-old female patient following Cryo Balloon Ablation.

Apollo Multispeciality Hospitals, Kolkata gave a new lease of life to three octogenarians by performing Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgeries (MICS). MICS is a new avenue for heart surgery, which comes with a host of benefits. With an incision of 1.5 to 3 inch instead of the 8 to 10 inch incisions that are made in conventional open heart surgery, MICS is less painful and almost scar-less. It also involves early recovery with lesser duration of hospital stay post-surgery and early return to normal life.

Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai has successfully performed the first Kidney Swap Transplant surgery in Navi Mumbai. The swap involved two families, the Sithas from Uran and the Sainis from Sion. The families found hope in each other as due to medical concerns, it became impossible for family members to give kidney to their own kin. In a turn of events, Mrs. Sunanda Sitha, mother of Mr. Rahul Sitha, donated kidney to Mrs. Parvinder Saini, wife of Mr. Gurudev Singh and Mr. Gurudev Singh donated kidney to Mr. Rahul Sitha.

Continuing the long string of breakthroughs and performing successful complex path breaking surgeries, Apollomedics Superspeciality Hospital, through a grueling marathon 48-hour surgical procedure, saved the life of a female sketch artist. In this surgery, the artist not only was cured of her life threatening brain aneurysm but also got her eyesight back.