Andhra Pradesh - Karimnagar   

Apollo Reach achieves milestone

KARIMNAGAR: The Apollo Reach hospital in Karimnagar, the first super speciality hospital to reach the tertiary healthcare of semi-urban and rural areas, has achieved a milestone in the medical field by performing the advanced and complicated cardiac surgeries for the first time in the Telangana region.

Within three months of its inauguration in Karimnagar, doctors at the Apollo Reach had performed the open heart surgery, placement of permanent pace maker, mitral valve replacement, angioplasty through radial artery and angioplasty with stent placement and other surgeries.

Disclosing this to newsmen here on Saturday, Apollo CEO Hari Prasad, hospital medical superintendent Raja Sekhar Reddy, cardiothoracic surgeon Rajesh Kumar Parida have said that the first open heart surgery was cardiopulmonary bypass performed on a 14-year-old Vasantha, who was suffering from congenital heart defect (ventricular septal defect with pulmonary stenosis). They said that they had also performed the modern angioplasty through radial artery on two patients.

The doctors have also placed a permanent pace maker on a 70-year-old man and a mitral valve replacement on a 55-year-old woman. All the four surgeries were performed under the Rajiv Arogyasri health insurance scheme.

All the patients, who have undergone surgeries at the Apollo, have thanked the hospital for the modern treatment and good hospitality.

The doctors at the Apollo Reach said that they were ready for any kind of by-pass and beating heart surgeries with latest procedures.

They also appealed to the people to refer the patients suffering from heart ailments to come on time to the Apollo for the complete treatment from the in-house doctors for the round-the-clock medical assistance.

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