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Personalities:
Dr. PRATAP C REDDY
Dr. Pratap C. Reddy, founder-Chairman
of Apollo Hospitals, has helped toward making Chenn ai
a centre for medical excellence in the country. He is
also credited with being the catalyst in bringing quality
health care to the country and modernising it.
Dr.Reddy left the U.S.
in the mid 1970's and set up his practice in India as
a cardiologist. Moved by the death of an Indian in the
U.S. for lack of money for surgery, Dr.Reddy decided
to work towards improving medicalinfrastructure in India.
He garnered the support
of his friends and other doctors in the U.S. and began
to work on his dream project. Most of the medical equipment
had to be imported from abroad.
The first in the chain
of the countrywide Apollo Hospitals was started in Chennai.
Today, Chennai and the rest of the country can be proud
of the state of the art medical equipment, especially
the surgical equipment in the Apollo chain of hospitals.
A born visionary, Dr.Reddy,
has today thirty Hospitals (owned and managed by him)
with a total bed strength of 2,800 and an investment
of Rs 800 crore. Dr.Pratap Reddy says 3P's are behind
his success - purity, patience and perseverance. He
admits that he has still a long way to go. His aim is
to make India the health care destination of the world.
First's from
Apollo
Declared a centre for excellence by the Government of
India.
Initiated the idea of Corporate hospitals in Chennai.
First private company to administer health insurance
in the country.
First to have an organ transplant registry in the country.
Pioneered the concept of plain balloon and laser angioplasty
techniques in the country.
Apollo Heartline, a revolutionary tool to access ECG's
over the telephone.
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