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Sunday, Oct 31, 2004

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Apollo performs 1,000 cardiac surgeries

By Our Staff Reporter

MADURAI, OCT. 30. The Managing Director of Apollo Hospitals Group, Preetha Reddy, today described the completion of 1,000 cardiac surgeries at the Apollo Speciality Hospitals here as a medical feat. `Our group set the standards in the whole country and the Madurai Apollo is an important landmark', she said addressing specialists and doctors via `tele-link' from Chennai during a live cardio-thoracic surgery workshop here. Appreciating the completion of thousand surgeries successfully, Dr. Preetha Reddy said the Apollo Group had done around 50,000 cardiac surgeries. The milestone figure, she said, was achieved in Madurai in just four years.

Later, the Senior Vice-President (medical) of Apollo Group, B. Prem Kumar, told The Hindu that the network of the Apollo Hospitals was expanding. It had its presence in Colombo, Mauritius, Bangladesh, Burma and African countries. `We want to be one of the large chain of hospitals in the world', he said. Developing countries would benefit from Apollo expansion. The workshop had sessions with `live surgery' using the telemedicine facility with the subjects ranging from coronary bypass surgery, valve replacement and repair surgery and congenital heart disease. The experts who addressed the delegates included A. Sampath Kumar from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, and Suresh Rao from the Amritha Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin.

T.N. Sekar, Hospital Administrator, Madurai Apollo Hospitals; Rohini Sridhar, Medical Superintendent; and Vivek Bose, interventional cardiologist at Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Madurai, were present.

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