INDIA – Indian healthcare group Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited has launched Apollo Children’s to expand access to the full range of pediatric care in India.
This launch represents a sharpened focus on cementing its position as India’s largest pediatric tertiary and quaternary care provider and reflects the group’s strategic agility over the past 40 years.
It follows the launch of Apollo Proton Cancer Centre’s new Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) to provide comprehensive and exceptional paediatric cancer care.
The main objective of Apollo Children’s is to foster a child-friendly environment that ensures personalized attention and comprehensive pediatric care of the highest order.
In a press release, Dr. Preetha Reddy, Executive Vice-Chairperson of Apollo said: “Patient centricity is at the core of what we do at Apollo. Apollo Children’s will be India’s finest healthcare facilities backed by multi-disciplinary expertise and treatment infrastructure.”
With the launch of Apollo Children’s, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd has a comprehensive and devoted branch delivering a wide scope of holistic neonatal, pediatric, and adolescent care
It will provide services across the wide spectrum of pediatric care comprising primary and secondary care, alongside tertiary and quaternary care.
Apollo Children’s is fully equipped with state-of-the-art facilities, cutting-edge technology, and multidisciplinary paediatricians to deliver the highest quality care to children in need.
Be it the care of the highly pre-term neonate or children with multi-organ dysfunction, Apollo is one of the leaders in advanced treatment facility for comprehensive pediatric care.
Commenting on specialty care services for children, Dr. Prathap C Reddy, Founder Chairman of Apollo, said: “With our highly skilled pediatric specialists, Apollo Children’s is designed to be a one-stop destination where children receive the highest quality of care across all aspects of their health.”
The Department of Pediatrics at Apollo is known, for its excellence in India and beyond. Apollo Children’s is now India’s largest, most dedicated, and most comprehensive network for pediatric care.
It has a wide network of over 40 hospitals, over 900 dedicated beds for pediatric care, and over 400 specialised pediatricians providing services across over 25 specialised pediatric care specialities.
The specialised pediatric care specialities include Pediatric Endocrinology, Pediatric Heart Transplantation, Pediatric Intensive Care, Pediatric oncology, Pediatric Robotics, Urology, and Neonatalogy, to name a few.
What sets Apollo Children’s apart is its unwavering commitment to 24/7 pediatric emergency and pediatric intensive care services, aligning with the group’s commitment to pediatric clinical excellence in India and beyond.
The dedicated emergency department is staffed by expert pediatric specialists and equipped with advanced life-saving equipment to ensure prompt and expert care in times of medical emergencies.
The new division will allow Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd to further cement its position as one of the best hospitals providing immediate and efficient management of pediatric emergencies in India.
“Recognizing the need to cover the entire spectrum of a child’s development, we aim to provide multidimensional and the most advanced care to children, setting new benchmarks in pediatric care,” said Dr. Prathap C Reddy.
Moreover, Apollo Children’s will improve access to specialized interventions for complex medical and surgical pediatric conditions, and ultimately, transform pediatric care in India.
Apollo Children’s will offer specialty care services for children with congenital disorders, gastrointestinal and liver disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, cardiac conditions, and renal disease.
It will ensure children have access to state-of-the-art therapies and comprehensive cancer care and age-appropriate liver transplants.
Moreover, Apollo Children’s joins Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited’s vertically integrated ecosystem providing parents with several care touch points through multiple channels.
Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd operates 49 pediatric and pediatric sub-specialty DNB seats across its hospitals providing top-notch postgraduate training in pediatrics and pediatric super specialities.
Consequently, Apollo Children’s will complement the work done by the pediatric and pediatric sub-specialty DNB seats across the group’s integrated ecosystem for the care of children.
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