Apollo Hospitals Group announced the launch of its latest and most modern healthcare facility - Apollo Hospitals, Visakhapatnam at the Health City, Arilova.
The world class facility was inaugurated by Nara Chandrababu Naidu, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh on April 30, said Dr Prathap C. Reddy, chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group.
The Apollo Hospitals, Health City, Arilova, built at a cost of Rs. 150 crores, and located on a sprawling eight acre expanse in a health friendly pollution free lush green environment is the latest and one of the finest additions to the Apollo Hospitals Group. The hospital staffed with eminent specialists and equipped with state-of-the-art technology, offers multi disciplinary high-end tertiary care.
The newly built 250 beded super specialty Apollo Hospitals has ultra modern laboratory facilities and latest modalities for imaging and diagnostics, some of which are available for the first time in this part of the country. The six, state-of-the-art modular operation theatres with laminar airflow, equipped with the latest medical technology, completely aseptic ensure near zero infection environment. The 24 X 7 fully functional emergency, critical care and trauma care at the hospital is geared to meet all medical emergencies. The latest generation equipment with cutting edge technology at the hospital include latest Flat Panel Digital Cath-lab, Modular Operation Theatres, 1.5 Tesla MRI, 128 Slice CT Scan, a fully Automated Laboratory and the first 3D OCT in Andhra Pradesh.
The hospital will provide comprehensive range of services in major specialties including cardiology, cardio-thoracic surgery, orthopaedics & joint replacements, emergency & critical care services, general medicine, general & laparoscopic surgery, nephrology & 24x7 dialysis, urology, neurology, neuro-surgery, plastic & cosmetic surgery, pulmonology, medical & surgical gastroenterology, anaesthesiology, ENT, obstetrics & gynaecology, paediatrics, radiology, pathology, organ transplant (Live and Cadaver), medical oncology & surgical oncology etc. Each of these departments is led by expert doctors with a number of years of experience and manned by specially trained patient-care staff who provide tender loving care round-the-clock.
This new hospital will not only cater to the needs of patients from Andhra Pradesh, but will have a footprint across Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Assam and Odisha.
Apollo's tried and tested protocols will bring about a marked change in the healthcare delivery and set new benchmarks in patient experience for the region, says Dr Prathap Reddy. In 6 months time we will expand further at Visakhapatnam by adding a state of the art 100 bedded cancer hospital.
He said in Andhra Pradesh we have hospitals at Kakinada, Nellore and Visakhapatnam, we plan to do more. We will be having a hospital between Vijayawada and Amaravati on the highway, hoping to get clearance in a month's time. It will be a 300 bedded hospital, with a proposed investment of Rs. 200 crores, which again depends on the permission given, we are all set and it will be ready in no time once the permission is given. There is great need for cancer hospitals in the country, the requirement for LINAC machines for treating cancer in the country is 2000, while we have only 200. Dr Reddy said all Apollo cancer hospitals will be connected. Currently seven of our hospitals have TrueBeam - an advanced radiotherapy, and will install nine more TrueBeams in various hospitals, off which two will be in the Cancer hospital being constructed at Vishakapatnam. We are bringing the first Proton therapy - a highly advanced radiotherapy, machine in whole of Asia, to Chennai. We currently have 11 cancer hospitals and will add 9 more in the next two years. In North East we will be starting a 150 bedded hospital at Guwahati and will add further 95 beds in second stage. We have plans for expansion but land is becoming more and more expensive, Government is not doing to healthcare sector what it did for IT, he said.
We have overtaken Mayo in multi-organ transplants, with the largest transplant programme in the world. In all our hospitals 15 per cent - 20 per cent patients are from overseas, it's a matter of great pride, he added.