New Delhi: It's a rebirth for 16-year-old Pakistani girl Madiha Tariq Sheikh, who feels India is her "own country" where she underwent a successful liver transplant surgery. Madiha, who hails from Lahore, was flown to India on February 3 after she slipped into coma due to acute liver failure and underwent a liver transplant surgery at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital here.
"This is my own country (India). It has been four months now and I am missing my school. Inshallah, I will return home next week," Madiha said. Her brother Rizwan had donated a part of his liver to save her. Incidentally, she is the 350th Pakistani to have undergone liver transplant at the hospital. In all, Apollo Transplant Programme has performed 1,252 liver transplants in children and adults from 27 countries in the past 15 years. Madiha was discharged on March 6 but was staying in India for further check-ups.
"We are very happy my sister has recovered and it has been great coming here (to India). We have already shared stories of tremendous support we got here to our people back home," said Rizwan. But what seems like a fairy tale now was initially a very tough road, Group Medical Director of Apollo Hospitals Anupam Sibal said.
"We sent our air ambulance with a group of doctors to lift Madiha from Lahore, you know how tough it is to get the visas and other formalities completed between the two countries. Again in India you have to
08:34 AM, Apr 13, 2013
An acid attack in Srinagar has left a young woman partially blind. The police have arrested two men and registered a case of attempt to murder with regard to the incident, even as the attack has triggered protests in Jammu and Kashmir. ...
08:31 PM, Jan 04, 2013
The 30-year-old school teacher, who was attacked with acid by a youth in the city, will be flying to the national capital on Friday for plastic surgery at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital. ...
07:28 PM, Jan 03, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Friday conducted security drills at station and a prominent private hospital to check the preparedness of authorities in case of a terror strike. The mock drills reportedly went well, sources said. The first drill was conducted at the Pratap Nagar Metro Station and the second drill at Apollo Hospital, officials said. A mock terror attack was conducted at the metro station...
12:44 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Bhubaneswar: In a curious incident, a surgeon in Bhubaneswar's Apollo Hospital sustained injuries in his abdomen near the hospital's operation theatre on Tuesday afternoon amidst allegations that he had been stabbed by a fellow doctor. The incident became even more mysterious after it was revealed that the hospital authorities did not report the matter to the police, with the local police station reacting only after the media began making inquiries....
09:46 AM, Sep 19, 2012
Bhubaneswar: In a shocking incident, a doctor at Bhubaneswar's Apollo hospital stabbed his colleague, seriously injuring him. Reports say that Dr Pramod Patra stabbed Dr Nayan Ranjan Nanda with a knife. The reasons for the brutal assault are unknown. The police is investigating the case. The accused doctor has not been arrested yet. Sources say that the incident happened on Tuesday morning but the hospital authorities delayed in informing the...
02:02 PM, Sep 18, 2012
CHENNAI: Apollo Transplant Institutes have become the busiest solid organ transplant programmes in the world, having conducted 929 liver, kidney and heart transplants during 2011. Addressing the media on this occasion, Dr. Prathap C Reddy, Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group said, Our aim at the Apollo Transplant Institutes is to be the best centre for transplantation in the world. Dr Anupam Sibal, Group Medical Director, Apollo Hospitals Group and Senior Consultant,...
07:45 AM, Feb 16, 2012
Hyderabad: Apollo Hospitals, India's biggest corporate hospital chain, Saturday launched "stroke Robot" which enables real-time quality care to stroke patients in areas far away from major cities. The RP-7 remote presence Robot is a mobile robotic platform that enables the physician to remotely monitor and guide the treatment of stroke. Apollo Group of Hospitals chairman Prathap C. Reddy told reporters that it is the first and only US Food and...
08:20 AM, Oct 30, 2011
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Hyderabad: "Ayaz is no more," was the brief SMS a shattered Mohammad Azharuddin sent to his close friends on Friday immediately after the Apollo Hospital declared that his younger son Mohammad Ayazuddin (19) passed away at 11:51 am due to hypoxic encephalopathy, six days after his sports bike skidded on the outer ring road. Among those who rushed to the hospital were Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, coach John...
10:31 AM, Sep 17, 2011
Hyderabad: Ayazuddin, son of former cricketer and Moradabad MP Mohammad Azharuddin, succumbed to his injuries suffered in a road mishap on Friday. Ayazuddin was being treated at the Apollo Hospital in Hyderabad. Ayazuddin (19) had sustained critical injuries after a sports bike, which he and his cousin Ajmal-ur-Rahman (16) were riding, skidded off the road at Puppalguda on the Outer Ring Road in Hyderabad on September 11 morning. "Ayaz was...
12:26 PM, Sep 16, 2011
New Delhi: Till now its been Swan Telecom and Reliance, Unitech wireless and Kalaingar TV that have felt the 2G spectrum scam heat. Now as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) enters its next level of investigations, with deals that took place between 2001 to 2007, it is looking at the other big player - Aircel and its chairperson, Suneetha Reddy, who is the joint MD of Apollo Hospitals Group....
08:05 PM, Jun 13, 2011
New Delhi: Till now its been Swan Telecom and Reliance, Unitech wireless and Kalaingar TV that have felt the 2G spectrum scam heat. Now as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) enters its next level of investigations, with deals that took place between 2001 to 2007, it is looking at the other big player - Aircel and its chairperson, Suneetha Reddy, who is the joint MD of Apollo Hospitals Group....
08:05 PM, Jun 13, 2011
Noida: Days after the Behl sisters were rescued, 43-year-old Sonali remains critical. Her elder sister Anuradha died on Wednesday. One overpowering question remains - how could two women who seemed to be leading a normal life just months ago become like this? Several questions revolve around their brother Vipin who had left home in 2007 after he got married. Anuradha's lawyer Rajneesh Yadav told CNN-IBN that she wanted Vipin to...
09:03 AM, Apr 15, 2011
Janata Party President and the petitioner in the 2G scam probe Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday demanded investigation into the death of A Raja's aide Sadiq Batcha. ...
05:02 PM, Mar 16, 2011
New Delhi: Janata Party President and the petitioner in the 2G scam probe Subramanian Swamy, on Wednesday, demanded investigation into the death of A Raja's aide Sadiq Batcha. "The most important thing is that suicide and murders are going to be a common part of the 2G investigations because reputations of too many people are involved in the case," Swamy said. Swamy refused to accept that Batcha would have committed...
04:54 PM, Mar 16, 2011
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11:28 AM, Feb 25, 2011
New Delhi: Major healthcare chain Apollo Hospitals will invest nearly Rs 1000 crore for setting up 12 new hospitals across the country over the next two years. Named "Apollo Reach", the hospitals will be set up in small cities. "We will be investing Rs 80-100 crore per hospital in class-II and class-III cities across the country," Apollo Hospitals chairman Prathap C Reddy said. Construction work has already started at six...
11:34 AM, Jan 06, 2011
Bhubaneswar: There is outrage against alleged medical negligence leading to the death of renowned Odissi Guru Padmashree Gangadhar Pradhan, who died on Monday morning due to brain hemorrage. His death sparked off a major controversy with his students going on a rampage at the Bhubaneswar's Apollo Hospital where he was admitted. The police have arrested ten students. The 61-year-old guru was hospitalised for a blood pressure check-up and was advised...
03:02 PM, Oct 11, 2010
Moving away from the metros, the healthcare giant is now providing state-of-the art healthcare to smaller cities. ...
04:36 PM, Jul 02, 2010
