APOLLO HOSPITALS.
Type	Public
Founded	1983
Headquarters	Chennai, India
Key people	Prathap C. Reddy, Founder and Chairman
Industry	Healthcare
Revenue	$8765 billion
Employees	10,000 +
Slogan	touching lives
Website	www.apollohospitals.com

Apollo Hospitals is a major Hospital chain based in Chennai, India. It was founded by Dr.Prathap C. Reddy in 1983. Today, Apollo is the largest private healthcare provider in Asia and the third largest in the world, with hospitals in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Ghana, Nigeria, Qatar, and Kuwait. Image File history File links Logo_of_Apollo_Hospitals. ... Chennai   (Tamil: ), formerly known as Madras  , is the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu and is Indias fourth largest metropolitan city. ... Dr. Pratap C. Reddy is a doctor and businessman who founded the first corporate chain of hospitals in India, the Apollo Hospitals Group. ... Revenue is a U.S. business term for the amount of money that a company earns from its activities in a given period, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... Look up Slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ... Chennai   (Tamil: ), formerly known as Madras  , is the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu and is Indias fourth largest metropolitan city. ... Dr. Pratap C. Reddy is a doctor and businessman who founded the first corporate chain of hospitals in India, the Apollo Hospitals Group. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ...

Several of the group's hospitals in India have been among the first in India to be accredited by the US-based Joint Commission International (JCI).^[1] The Hyderabad hospital was the first in the world, outside the US, to receive Disease- or Condition-Specific Care (DCSC) Certification in addition to general accreditation when it received this for its Acute Stroke treatment in 2006.^[2] Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Hyderabad   or Haydarābād // (Telugu: హైదరాబాదు,Urdu: حیدر آباد ) is the capital city of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. ... A stroke, also known as cerebrovascular accident (CVA),[1] is an acute neurological injury in which the blood supply to a part of the brain is interrupted. ...

The group has developed services in telemedicine, after starting a pilot project in 2000 in Dr Pratap C. Reddy's own home village.^[3] It is now the largest telemedicine solution provider in India with 71 centres.^[4] The term Telemedicine is the delivery of medicine at a distance. ...

See also

• Medical tourism

Medical tourism is the act of traveling to other countries to obtain medical, dental, and surgical care. ...

Further reading

• Rama V. Baru, Privatisation and corporatisation, 2000:paper 489, Seminar Publications, New Delhi, accessed at [5] November 11, 2006

Notes

1. ^ Accreditation for 3 Apollo Hospital branches, The Hindu, May 10, 2006 accessed at [1] Nov 11, 2006
2. ^ Make medicare affordable, says Rosaiah, The Hindu, September 25, 2006 accessed at [2] Nov 11, 2006
3. ^ Telemedicine puts AP village on health map, The Indian Express, September 7, 2005 accessed at [3] Nov 11, 2006
4. ^ Philips ties-up with ISRO, Apollo Hospital and DHAN to provide affordable rural healthcare, Philips press notice, July 08, 2005 accessed at [4] Nov 11, 2006

External links

• Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation
• http://www.healthbase.com - Official USA Representative
• http://surgicaltourism.ca Canadian and North American representatives of Apollo hospitals