Preventive
health care has been introduced for the first time in the country by
Apollo Hospitals with hospitals in the metros of Hyderabad, Chennai and
Delhi, within easy international air access. The professional chain also
pioneered the concept of lifesytle clinics, established the first corgan
registry in the country and introduced non-invasive technique for
treatment of lesions and thumours of the brain- Stereotactic Radio Surgery
and Radio therapy in the country. It recently installed a state-of-the-art
Cobalt Unit.
Apollo Heart Hospital provides a complete network
of cardiac patients. It has total bed capacity of 500 beds distributed
between Apollo Chennai, Hyderabad and Delhi. Apollo is linked to the Mayo
Clinic and the Minneapolis Heart Institute, apremier heart institute led
by the team of doctors who poionered the Jarvik artificial heart.
Probably
the greatest conceptual advance of this century in Therapeutic Oncology is
the priciple of the elimination of the neoplastic process with
conservation of both anatomy and physiology.
Outstanding exaples
are conservation of limbs in Osteosarcoma, preservation of female breast
in malignancies of the organ and the saving of the larynx in maliganancies
of the organ and the saving of the larynx in laryngeal cancer by a
multimodal approach in management. Equally amazing has been the cure of
certain acute leukemias by Bone marrow transplantation.
Imaging
with MRI, a hypertension research centre and facilities for haemodialysis
and kidney transplantation are available at Akila Hospitals at Trichy. The
hospital boasts a transplant team with 8 specialists, bone marrow
transplant team alongwith five specialists on call to Sri Lanka, Sharjah,
Kuwait and major Indian cities.
In Chennai, the Vijaya Heart
Foundatin's 79 beds has a state-of-the-art cardiology and cardio-thracic
surgical unit manned by competent and experienced staff. The Vijaya Health
Centre with 170 beds, offers diagnostic facilities in laboratory, X-ray,
ultrasond, treadmill, endoscopy, C.T.Scan, M.R.I. and nucler medicine.
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