Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi has performed a rare life-saving heart surgery on a two-day old newborn for removal of a rare tumor. Baby Virin, whose parents are residents of Noida, was born with a rare congenital tumor called Intrapericardial teratoma (arising from the surface of heart) which was detected while he was in his mother’s womb. The infant’s tumor was detected on a routine ultrasound of his mother at 20 weeks of gestation. It was found to be arising from the surface of his heart and had the potential of impacting growth within the womb. Hence, after the detection, his condition was monitored regularly every week by the means of fetal echocardiogram (to assess the growth of tumor and any effects on the functioning of heart). To reduce the pressure on his heart and carry his mother’s pregnancy to term, excessive amount of fluid surrounding his heart was needed to be removed once. At birth, the baby weighed 3.2 kg but had trouble in breathing. He was immediately intubated and put on a ventilator. A CT Angio was conducted, and showed a 7 cm across, lobulated giant intrapericardial tumor that was pushing the heart to the left and compressing the lung. Dr. Rajesh Sharma, Senior Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi said, “The baby’s condition was precarious, and we planned to operate on him immediately. On day 2 after birth, we successfully removed the tumor which was larger than the heart and was found to be attached to the surface of heart, displacing the heart to the left. It had an attachment to the aorta and the right AV groove. Since tumor manipulation was causing a fall in the blood pressure, and due to its proximity to the right coronary artery, the removal of the tumor was accomplished by putting the baby on the heart-lung machine, on cardiopulmonary bypass. We managed to remove the tumor in one piece.” Dr. Ashutosh Marwah, Consultant Surgeon, Pediatric Cardiology, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi said, “Fortunately there have been no significant deleterious effects of the tumor on the functioning of lungs or heart. Though the removal of tumor is supposed to be curative in most cases, due to the rarity of the diagnosis, the baby will need regular follow-ups with tumor marker levels and regular echocardiographic examinations in the future. For now, the baby has shown good recovery and has been discharged.” An intrapericardial teratoma arising from the heart is an exceedingly rare tumor of the fetus and the newborn. A major concern with such tumors during pregnancy is the life-threatening pressure that the tumor puts on the fetus’ heart and lungs. The baby has been discharged and is normal and healthy.

Baby Somya Tiwari, a seven-year-old girl, from Valsad, Gujarat, had her neck fixed at an almost 90 degrees angle after two consecutive surgeries failed to address her neck tilt caused by a neck muscle tumour. The presence of this tumor led to neck tilting and rotation which is called as Torticollis, also known as wry neck. However, in this case the muscle had calcified, and the collar bone and skull bone were united by a bony bar which had fixed her head to body without any movement. Such a complicated case has not been reported in any orthopaedic/ medical journal/ literature and this for the first time a multi-staged surgery for the condition has been performed. The child was successfully treated at Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai through a complex multi-stage surgery carried out by a specialized multi-disciplinary team. Before visiting Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai, she had been suffering from this condition for over five and a half years. The family brought the girl to Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai as their last hope to correct the deformity so that the girl could live a normal life. The girl was examined by team of doctors from Spine Surgery and Paediatric Orthopaedic units. A detailed treatment plan of multi-stage correction was drafted but it needed support from ENT, pediatrics, pediatrics, plastic surgery department. The child’s head was completely tilted and fixed with no movement at all. MRI / CT scan imaging showed a bony bar extending from the collarbone to the mastoid bone located behind the ear. After detailed consultation, a complex multi-stage surgery was planned. Dr. Agnivesh Tikoo, Spine Surgeon, Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai said, “When the child was six months of age, the family had noticed a lump on the right side of neck which gradually started increasing in size and caused a tilt in the neck. At 9 months of age, she underwent her first surgery. This appears to have been a condition called as benign fibrobastic proliferation of sternocleidomastoid muscle, also known as fibromatosis colli. This is a congenital fibrotic process that is rarely seen and affects infants with an incidence of 0.4% of live births. It is usually on one side, affects the right side in 3/4th of cases, and usually, male infants are affected slightly more often than the females. Dr. Swapnil Keny, Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai added that in the cases of Fibromatosis Colli there usually is a history of complicated delivery and birth injury in more than half of the cases. This causes an injury to the neck muscle that scars as it heals, with the amount of scar in the muscle determining the tightness of the muscle and severity of the torticollis. The child in this case underwent a second surgery at 15 months of age elsewhere, but she had a fall and could not follow up the treatment and this resulted in severe neck deformity. “The neck tilt and rotation were so bad that the 1st and 2nd cervical spine bones (vertebra) had slipped from their original position” said Dr. Tikoo. The family took the child to many hospitals, which refused intervention citing high risk. The family gave up any hope of getting better and stopped seeking medical intervention. The patient was then brought to Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai as the last hope for treatment. The multi-stage surgery was carried out in three stages, led by Dr Agnivesh Tikoo, Spine surgeon and Dr. Swapnil Keny, Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon. The sternocleidomastoid, a rope shaped muscle that extends from the inner end of collar bones to part of skull behind the ears, had become contracted and calcified. In the first stage, the bony bar was excised and removed and the tight muscle fibres were removed with help of the ENT and plastic surgery team. The first stage of the surgery resulted in an immediate partial correction of the neck tilt but it was just the beginning of the treatment. Correcting the neck in one stage could make the child completely paralyzed. A Pediatric Halo, which holds the head via metal pins was applied to child’s skull and gradual traction with weights was applied which was given gradually over the next three weeks to correct the deformity. The second stage was carried out 3 weeks after the first stage surgery. The second stage involved fixing the slipped cervical vertebrae which was performed under neuromonitoring (a device/ system which monitors the spinal cord and nerves during the surgery). The child was protected in Halo Vest to let the bones heal. The child remained in the Halo Vest for three months before it was removed to be replaced with a specially made collar. The child underwent a third minor procedure few days ago to make her neck more flexible to aid in physiotherapy. The child can see straight with both the eyes after 5 and a half years of ‘one eyed vision’ and can hold her neck straight. Mr. Nilesh Tiwari, Father of the Child, said, “It was a difficult time for the family, to see the child suffering. We went to multiple places across India, but nobody was willing to operate considering it was a high risk case. One of my colleagues recommended to meet the specialists at Apollo Hospitals. The Doctors, explained the case in detail and multiple surgeries were performed. We are happy to see our daughter to hold her head straight and be normal like any other child.” Mr. Santosh Marathe, COO and Unit Head, Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai said, “The child’s deformity is today significantly better. She is able to live a normal life without the neck deformity and is able to move her neck without any limitation. We are happy that we were able to treat the child and live up to the family’s hopes and expectations with which they had brought her to Apollo Hospitals. It is cases like this that inspire us to continue to create accessibility to advanced medical technology for our team of finest medical experts to consistently deliver best in class clinical outcomes and set new benchmarks in healthcare delivery and patient experience.”

Apollo Hospitals, has successfully conducted MitraClip implant surgery on a 41-year-old male farmer who had waited for over three months in other hospitals for a heart transplant. The patient was back on his feet within a few days after the procedure, and might not even need a heart transplantation. Dr. Sai Satish, Senior Interventional Cardiologist, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai said, The MitraClip is a small metal clip with a polyester fabric that is inserted in place to fix the leaky mitral valve, thereby ensuring that the blood flow is in the right direction. It is a globally accepted procedure for patients with heart failure. Patients with moderate to severe or severe primary and secondary mitral regurgitation who are not improving on medical treatment can opt for this minimally invasive solution that offers them a vastly improved quality of life and health. Read more about the life-saving procedure performed at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai

Apollo Proton Cancer Centre (APCC) has successfully operated on a female patient from Bangladesh suffering from rectal cancer, using Robotic Stapler for the first time. The patient with rectal cancer visited Apollo Proton Cancer Centre in March 2021. She was diagnosed with locally advanced rectal cancer and received chemotherapy with radiotherapy to shrink the cancer. She was re-evaluated in June 2021. Since the tumour had shrunk considerably with the previous treatment, the patient was counselled to undergo a robot-assisted surgical procedure, known as a low anterior resection. The surgery was performed by Dr. Ajit Pai, Senior Consultant, Lead GI Surgical Oncology and his team at Apollo Proton Cancer Centre on 3rd July 2021. The patient recovered well from the procedure and was discharged without any complications in 3 days. Read more about Rectal Cancer surgery performed with the Robotic Stapler

Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Vanagaram launched a Quaternary Care, Level FOUR Epilepsy Care Center to help people living with epilepsy. The advanced epilepsy care centre was launched by Honourable Minister Thiru. S M Nasar, Milk and Dairy Development Department, Tamil Nadu Government and Dr Alby John Varghese, IAS District Collector & District Magistrate Tiruvallur. The level FOUR Epilepsy Care Centre will localize (finding the lesion location in the brain), classify (Type of seizure), accelerate therapies to control seizures, further evaluate and offer higher level of care including Epilepsy Surgeries. Read more about the level Four Epilepsy Care Centre at Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Vanagaram

The Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery of Apollo Children’s Hospital, Chennai has partnered with Rotary Club of Madras East to help underprivileged children requiring lifesaving heart surgery. Of every 1000 babies born, 8 are born with congenital heart disease. In India, on an average, 2.5 lakh children are born annually with heart disease. About half will die before the first birthday, if they do not have access to timely surgery and intervention. The Pediatric Cardiac program caters to children with heart disease from all socioeconomic classes. The program is run with the help of the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister’s Comprehensive Health Scheme, donations from the Save a Child’s Heart Initiative (SACHI Trust) run by Apollo Hospitals, crowdfunding platforms and the kindness, dedication and magnanimity of Rotarians like those belonging to Rotary Club of Madras East (RCME) and the generosity and unlimited support from the Apollo top-management. The joint program between Apollo Children’s Hospital and RCME was launched on July 5, 2021 with an initial target of helping at least 500 poor children over a period of 1 year. Read more about the Healing Tiny Hearts Project

Doctors at Apollo Proton Cancer Centre has successfully performed India’s first Megaprosthesis Fixation for femur and Laparoscopic Radical nephrectomy as a single stage surgery through a Multimodal approach. A 54-year-old female from Assam visited the Apollo Proton Cancer Centre on June 13, 2021. She had sustained fracture of her left thigh bone and suffered a trivial injury two months ago, after which she was bedridden and completely immobile. On evaluation and a biopsy, she was diagnosed with metastatic left renal cell carcinoma which is a cancerous lesion of the kidney. It is a type of metastasis in which cancer cells from the original (primary) tumor travel through the body and form a small number of new tumors (metastatic tumors) in other parts of the body. Specialists at Apollo Proton Cancer Centre planned for surgical resection of the tumor in the thigh bone and the removal of the affected kidney through minimally invasive methods to stabilize the patient and get her to walk again. Read more about the challenging surgery performed at Apollo Proton Cancer Centre.

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. Dr. K. Hari Prasad, President – Hospitals Division, Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Limited said, “With the opening up of the vaccination program for the private sector, we have intensified our efforts to accelerate the rate of vaccination through opening vaccination centers across our hospital network and are also in discussions with corporates to undertake vaccination on their premises. We are currently administering COVID vaccine at 60 locations across the country including Apollo Hospitals, Apollo Spectra Hospitals and Apollo Clinics. This pilot phase will allow Dr. Reddy’s and Apollo Hospitals test the arrangements and cold chain logistics and prepare for the launch. We are confident that with the Sputnik V vaccine, we will be able to make a significant contribution to ease availability and access to COVID vaccines to the community at large.” Mr. M.V. Ramana, CEO – Branded Markets (India & Emerging Markets), Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories said: “We are pleased to collaborate with Apollo Hospitals as part of our soft pilot launch of the Sputnik V vaccine in India. We are working to scale up the pilot and take the vaccine to other cities, and in the upcoming months we hope to inoculate as many Indians as possible.” The Sputnik V vaccines for the pilot program would be supplied by Dr. Reddy’s from the first batch of 1,50,000 vaccine doses imported by them for the soft launch. After Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam, the pilot program will be extended to Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Kolkata, and Pune.

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. That made the task extremely perilous, but the hands-on experience and the immense expertise, the Transplant and Support Teams at Apollo Hospitals command, steered the outcome to success. The patient has since recovered and is all set to be discharged. This case is unique, as it is the first time in our country that a multi-organ transplant has been performed using one organ that is non matching blood group and the other organ of a matching blood group. Monitoring such patients, especially for rejection is a big challenge. As it is, blood group unmatched transplant of a single organ is a complex endeavor, undertaken only in select centers globally. It is noteworthy that the same team had performed the first unmatched blood group transplant of the city about six months ago. Mr. Gabriel Ceaser Sisa first visited Dr Naveen Polavarapu, Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad in 2017 with Liver related problems. It soon transpired that he had chronic Liver and chronic Kidney disease. Over the course of the next three years, his Liver and Kidney diseases progressed despite being on active medical treatment and close monitoring. As he reached end stage Liver disease and end stage Kidney disease requiring hemodialysis, he was advised to undergo a combined liver and kidney transplant. Usually, such transplants are performed using organs from a single cadaveric donor, which avoids complications associated with multiple living donors including blood group mismatch, post-surgery donor recovery etc. In fact, rejection of the blood group unmatched organ by the recipient is very high and is an immense challenge, needing constant monitoring. This patient being a foreign national was ineligible for a cadaveric organ in India as only Indian citizens can avail cadaver organs as per the law. The doctors had no choice but to harvest organs from two different donors from the patient’s family. Though his brother and nephew accompanied him as possible blood group matching donors for liver and kidney respectively, the brother was found medically unfit to donate either liver or kidney. The search mounted for a same blood group liver donor turned out to be futile. It was his fifty-two-year-old wife with a different blood group was the option on hand and a slice of liver was sourced from her and the twenty-nine-year-old nephew donated the kidney. He was admitted on February 9th, 2021, though preparations, administering special medicines and conducting various procedures as a part of the treatment protocol were all begun three weeks ahead of surgery. The surgery, done on February 12th, 2021, took 23 hours, with three teams of surgeons operating simultaneously in three operation theatres. The kidney donor was discharged on the fourth day, liver donor on the sixth day and the recipient after sixteen days after the surgery on February 28th, 2021. The patient and both the donors are healthy and ready to fly back home. The challenges faced by the medical team were enormous because of multiple health and procedural complications. The patient had to be prepared for blood group nonmatched transplant, which required a special treatment protocol. This surgery itself was high risk because of multiple reasons like blood group mismatch, patient on dialysis, dual organ transplant and both organs from living donors, says Dr. Manish Varma, Chief Transplant Surgeon, Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad. The expert team of doctors was supported by Dr Ravi Andrews, Consultant Nephrologist; Dr K. Soma Sekhar, Consultant Gastroenterologist; Consultant Transplant Surgeons Dr Sasidhar Reddy and Dr Rajshri; Dr Manjunath B, Consultant Anesthetist and Dr Navakanth, Consultant Intensivist, among others. “This is a very rare and unique case of its kind particularly because of the blood group not matching and the complex combined Liver and kidney transplant done successfully on the same patient. Even on thorough literature search by our medical team, only one such case was done earlier in the world. This required meticulous planning and execution and it wouldn’t have been possible without the efforts of our multidisciplinary team. We are happy to see that the patient is going back to his country safely after a successful outcome” says Dr Naveen Polavarapu, Chief Transplant Hepatologist, Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad.

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. Read more about the Robot-Assisted Cancer Surgery Unit launched in Apollo Proton Cancer Centre

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%. The study provides a unique perspective drawn from Apollo Hospitals’ 37 years of experience and its vast footprint across the country and underlines how Artificial Intelligence and Big data analytics can help to predict risk and prevent NCDs. Given the pandemic, this is also important as individuals with NCDs such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and chronic liver disease have a greater mortality risk from COVID-19. Dr Prathap C Reddy, Founder and Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group said, “Even before the pandemic began, we have been facing an unacceptable loss of lives due to non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The silent epidemic of NCDs was evident with NCDs behind 40% of all hospital stays. However, in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, the data from our Health of the Nation report made it clear that we have let another epidemic slip, the epidemic of NCDs – the impact of which we are already beginning to see around us. We can overcome NCDs together as a country, only if each and every one of us take our health seriously. “At Apollo, we have been working on preventive health for over 37 years. From the very first Master Health Check in the country, we have been constantly evolving our programs for early detection and better clinical outcomes. Apollo ProHealth is a proactive personalized health management program backed by cutting-edge technology – advanced diagnostics, artificial intelligence and predictive algorithms – to help identify your health risk. It coaches you to stay on the path to wellness until your health goals are achieved. With Apollo ProHealth, we hope to change the health check paradigm from a long checklist of tests to a meaningful conversation with the doctor on the status of your health, with a comprehensive plan to make you healthier tomorrow than you are today. Today, on World Health Day, on behalf of the Apollo Hospitals Group, I dedicate Apollo ProHealth to the health of our nation!” NCDs affect not just health, but also productivity and economic growth. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations recognises NCDs as a major challenge for sustainable development with the target to reduce premature mortality from NCDs by one-third by 2030. The pandemic last year has exacerbated the risks and impact of NCDs manifold, as also shown in the Health of the Nation report. Dr Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Group said, “Apollo Hospitals’ commitment is to the health of the nation, with a vision to make our nation healthier. With the urgent need to respond to the challenge of non-communicable diseases, we cannot afford a pure treatment and curative approach to health. We believe that a focus on prevention will be transformative for the health of the nation. We are harnessing the power of technology to develop new methodologies for screening, detection, and patient risk profiling. We are using our pioneering experience of over 37 years and countrywide network to create and innovate new models of care to improve clinical outcomes. We have been the first to adopt Artificial Intelligence and Big data analytics to predict risk and personalize care. “Today, we are showcasing our insights into a vast amount of health data that will form the foundation of a healthcare model for our future. Many arms of Apollo Hospitals have worked together, collating their knowledge, data on the incidence of disease, and put that into one holistic report that is a representative study of the Health of the Nation.” NCDs account for 65% of all deaths in India. There is a need to look at new norms of preventive health management that allow us to detect and tackle risks from NCDs before they manifest, even more so in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Health of the Nation report offers a unique perspective of the healthy and unhealthy – across occupations, economic segments, and demographics, and trends of non-communicable diseases across the country. The study will help put in place approaches to improve disease prevention, increase the accuracy of early diagnoses that will, in turn, lead to a more personalized and patient-centric treatment approach. Dr Anupam Sibal, Group Medical Director, Apollo Hospitals Group said, “The Health of the Nation study highlights the need to direct our efforts efficiently towards controlling NCDs through optimal use of our healthcare infrastructure. The highest prevalence of pre-diabetes and diabetes is seen in 45-60 year olds and is almost as high as the 60+ age group. Amongst the diabetics, around 50% also have hypertension and are above the recommended weight. Around 60% of these diabetics are also leading a sedentary lifestyle. The data also indicates that while women have lower incidence of NCDs, the difference is marginal. Hence, they must stay vigilant. The economically disadvantaged are also not spared, although with lower prevalence.” There is a significant diabetes population in the major metros and suburbs of India, especially the Delhi NCR – Punjab & Haryana Belt, Kolkata, entire Mumbai-Ahmedabad belt, Hyderabad and Chennai, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, as well as in the predominantly rural areas of MP, Maharashtra, UP, Bihar, parts of Orissa and Gujarat. There is a significant hypertensive population in major metros such as Delhi, Punjab & Haryana, Kolkata, Mumbai, Goa, Trivandrum and Hyderabad and in the predominantly rural areas in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, UP, Bihar, Orissa and Gujarat. Prof. Nirmal Kumar Ganguly. Former Director-General, Indian Council of Medical Research and President, Apollo Hospitals Educational and Research Foundation said, “Our pilot community health model, Total Health, to reduce premature NCD-related deaths in rural areas was launched in 2013 in Aragonda, Chittoor district. The program saw 31,350 people classified as low risk, moderate risk and high risk, according to their ten-year risk of developing NCDs, and proactively managed with regular follow up, investigations, medication, clinical interventions, counselling and lifestyle modifications for diabetes, hypertension and cancer. In addition, the program also addresses all other social determinants of health in the country (e.g., drinking water, nutrition, kitchen gardening, livelihood generation) to beyond just health to ‘Total Care’ for ‘Total Health’. Around 80% of mortality from NCDs is preventable with early detection and proper management. It is critical to continue to focus on regular health check-ups to detect NCDs along with AI-enabled tools that allow premature health events to be identified early. Under this program 1,980 diabetic and hypertensive patients have been put under regular follow up, who are under now control with proper investigations, medication, counseling and life style modifications. Also 5,391 rural women were screened for cancer and 17 early cancer cases (cervix and breast) were diagnosed and managed with appropriate health intervention services which were free of cost Dr Sujoy Kar, Chief Medical Information Officer said, “The study gives us the data that will allow the effective use of technology to predict risks and guide our actions to prevent and rein in the NCD epidemic. One such example is to evaluate and manage the High Sensitive Troponin-I (hsTnI)categorical CVD risk in subjects undergoing preventive health checks (PHC). “AI and predictive algorithms can predict risk, prevent premature health events, and overcome chronic lifestyle diseases, when caught early. For example, we have developed a Cardiovascular Risk Score (AICVD) in the Indian population and it is now prospectively used and followed up on 33000 individuals as part of ProHealth to predict the risk of developing cardiovascular disease. There are various clinical tools using AI and data analytics ready for deployment as well as under research for various NCDs. These include tools and algorithms to identify medical issues early in CT scans, predict various risks including the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, asthma, liver fibrosis in NAFLD, breast cancer, pre-diabetes and stroke. Dr Sathya Sriram, CEO, Preventive Health, Apollo Hospitals Chennai said, “The Health of the Nation study has shown us the importance of shifting the paradigm in India from a curative to a preventive mindset. Apollo ProHealth, empowered by AI and predictive algorithms, is a personalized proactive health management program based on 22 million health checks, building on Apollo’s pioneering efforts in preventive care and led by medical experts committed to making individuals healthier. Apollo ProHealth includes personalized health risk assessment to predict health risks and diagnostics tailored to your profile, physician-led evaluation for a personalized treatment plan and wellness goals, and Health Mentors to regularly monitor your health parameters and help individuals stay on the path to wellness. Over the last 12 months, a cohort of ProHealth guests with diabetes have shown 33%-60% target achievement across multiple health parameters, such as blood pressure, cholesterol, physical activity and HbA1c. The Health of the Nation report is the basis on which NCDs can be managed proactively, with the data used for early identification and management of NCDs using AI and data analytics to enable India to follow an accelerated path to meet SDG goals by 2030.

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. Along with this, Apollomedics Super Specialty Hospital, Lucknow has already performed more than 50 Kidney Transplants successfully and will soon provide the facility of complex organ transplants such as Heart, Lung, Bone Marrow, Cornea, etc. also in Lucknow. Inaugurating this program, the Chief Guest and Hon’ble Chief Minister of the State, Shri. Yogi Adityanath said, “I want to congratulate Apollomedics Super Specialty Hospital, Lucknow for performing the first successful liver transplant surgery. This is a commendable step towards establishment of a robust healthcare model in Uttar Pradesh. Now people of the state will get the benefit of complex surgeries like Liver and Kidney transplant in UP itself. The state government is continuously making efforts to provide advanced medical services to the people of the state with the help of Government and private health institutions. We hope, that with this initiative of Apollomedics, Uttar Pradesh will become the flag bearer of Transplant services in the country.” During a recent address, Honorable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Ji gave mantra of making India “Aatm Nirbhar” (self-reliant) in the field of healthcare, by working on the basis of PPP model. This achievement by Apollomedics Super Specialty Hospital, Lucknow is a crucial step in this direction. Dr. Mayank Somani (MD & CEO Apollomedics Super Specialty Hospital, Lucknow), congratulated the entire team involved in the transplant surgery and said, “the Apollo Organ Transplant Program is India’s largest and most comprehensive transplant program.” With the introduction of this program, Apollomedics Super Specialty Hospital, Lucknow will now be able to provide international standard treatment to patients suffering from end stage Liver and Kidney diseases. Along with this we are working on providing services of Heart, Lung, Bone Marrow and Cornea transplant which will soon be made available to the residents of the state. Giving information about the special liver clinic started for liver patients, Dr. Somani said, “Along with this, every Thursday we have started a special liver clinic, where the specialists in our liver facility will provide counseling to the people suffering from liver diseases.” Dr Prathap C Reddy, Founder-Chairman, Apollo Hospitals said “Its indeed a proud moment for all of us that Apollomedics Super Specialty Hospital, Lucknow is achieving milestones one after another in such a short span of time. Starting with the first successful Pediatric Liver transplant in India in 1998 with Sanjay who was then 20-month-old, many landmarks have been established. Sanjay is now a doctor and not just patients from different states of India but those from 50 countries have received liver transplants at Apollo. More than 3600 liver transplants have been performed of which 397 are on children. Apollo hospitals is committed to delivering global standard of Solid organ transplant services in Uttar Pradesh”. The liver transplant team of Apollomedics Super Specialty Hospital, Lucknow explained, “54-year-old patient, a resident of Tanda was suffering from Liver Cirrhosis for the past two years. He was brought to our hospital in a very critical condition. After all the necessary investigations, it was diagnosed that liver transplant is the only viable option left for saving the life of the patient. The son of the patient agreed to donate part of his liver. The team of 6 surgeons took about 15 hours to complete this complex surgery. Both recipient and donor are healthy post-surgery and have been discharged from the hospital without any complication. The team included Dr Neerav Goyal (HPB Surgery & Liver Transplant) & Dr Ashish Mishra (HPB Surgery & Liver Transplant) along with Dr. Waliullah (Surgical Gastroenterology), Dr. Suhang Verma (Hepatology), Dr. Rajeev Ranjan (Hepatology), Dr. Manish (Anesthesia) Dr. Shishir (Anaesthesia), Dr. Anshuman (Anaesthesia) and Dr. Ajay Kumar (Chief Consultant – Critical Care and Director Medical Services).