Shobana Kamineni, executive vice-chairperson, Apollo Group of Hospitals, said: “We would like to thank the Union and state governments and the vaccine manufacturers of Covishield and Covaxin for their support.” Apollo Hospitals Group on Thursday announced that it has crossed an important milestone by administering one million vaccines across 80 locations in India. The Group … Read more
Dr Reddy’s has received 1.5 lakh Sputnik V vaccine for the first dose last week and the second consignment of 60,000 for the second dose during the weekend. (Photo source: Reuters) Hyderabad-based pharma company Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (DRL) on Monday soft-launched the pilot programme of Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccination in the country. The company said … Read more
New Delhi: The contribution of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) as the top causes of death in India has risen to a staggering 64.9 per cent as compared to communicable diseases, maternal and other causes that dropped to 25 per cent, Apollo Hospitals Group said on Wednesday. The healthcare major also unveiled a report on the ‘Health … Read more
“At Apollo Hospitals, we are fully geared up to administer up to one million Covid-19 vaccines a day to support the government in achieving its target of administering 500 million vaccines by July 2021,” Reddy said. Apollo Hospitals on Thursday said it has completed vaccinating more than one lakh people against Covid-19 since the Centre … Read more
A multi-disciplinary team consisting of biomedical engineers, mechanical engineers and 3D designers will work with Apollo Hospitals medical and surgical talent in the hospital 3D printing labs. Chennai-based Apollo Hospitals Group and Anatomiz3D Medtech, a ‘patient-specific’ solution provider to the healthcare industry for design, 3D printing, rapid prototyping and bioprinting technologies, on Wednesday announced a … Read more
Young surgeons at the All India Institute of Medical Science are being acquainted with Da Vinci. Not the great 15th century artist Leonardo Da Vinci but a robot made by California-based Intuitive Surgicals to assist in surgeries. In the largest such initiative so far, a group of 70 young surgeons specialising in oncology at the … Read more
New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said the Delhi government is fully prepared for the COVID-19 vaccination roll-out starting January 16, with over 8,000 healthcare workers to be immunised every scheduled day in the city. Addressing an online media briefing, he said the city government has received a total of 2.74 lakh doses … Read more
The current gold-standard method, on the contrary, requires many expensive reagents and steps that add to the expertise, money and time required for the tests. (Representational image) CSIR-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB) and Apollo Hospitals on Thursday announced a collaboration for joint manufacturing and commercialisation of an innovative dry swab test — direct … Read more
The officials also said that the test has similar result accuracy as that of RT-PCR. As the Coronavirus cases surge in India, Tata MD in collaboration with Apollo Hospitals will soon offer a new testing technique. The idea behind the roll out of testing technique is to reduce the time spent waiting for test results … Read more
Till date the Group had tested over 2,50,000 and have treated over 75,000 patients. Apollo Hospitals on Thursday claimed it is prepared to administer one million Covid-19 vaccines daily, backing the government’s initiative in the fight against the pandemic. The group will leverage its pan India web of 19 medicine supply hubs with cold chain … Read more