Apollo Hospitals to open in January
Bhubaneswar:Asia’s largest and India’s first healthcare chain Apollo Hospitals Group on Thursday announced the opening of the region’s largest multi superspeciality hospital and its 47th unit in Bhubaneswar.
Briefing newsmen here on Thursday, Group chairman Dr Prathap C Reddy said that the hospital with best combination of clinical excellence, state-of-the art technology and equipment, tender loving care and telemedicine which will ensure healthcare of international standard.
The hospital with 84,000 heart surgeries with over 99 percent success rate speaks volume of its overwhelming success in health care, he pointed out
Dr Reddy said that the country will need over 1,00,000 beds in the next 20 years which gets translated into doubling the strength of doctors, trebling the number of nurses and quadrupling the number of paramedics in that period.
Hence, the Apollo Group has a strong presence in training and preparing personnel which will create employment opportunities and ensure availability of trained personnel.
Present on the occasion, Group medical director Dr Anupam Sibal made a presentation about the 26-year-old group and pointed out that it is the only health care chain for which a commemorative postage stamp has been released by the Centre last year.
He highlighted the multi-faceted activities of the group which included telemedicine under the name Health Super Highway, Apollo Outreach Hospitals for providing health care in the rural areas, Apollo Health Knowledge City that is expected to be operational in another couple of years.
He also mentioned the health insurance services of the Group in association with a leading health insurance company based in Munich, Germany.
Eminent Cardiac Surgeon Dr Pankaj Mankad described how he was persuaded by Dr Reddy to give up a flourishing career of 28 years in UK to head the 47th unit of the Group in Bhubaneswar.
Eminent cardiac specialist Dr Kabi Prasad Mishra expressed the hope that the unit will exceed the reputation of Apollo group that has existed in the city.
The hospital will start operation from mid January with 200 beds.
Earlier in the day, Dr Reddy called on chief minister Naveen Patnaik at the State Secretariat here and informed him that the hospital would start functioning from the second week of February.
He also informed Patnaik that his group would set up a nursing training school.