Apollo Group of Hospitals launched a new initiative – Apollo Knee Clinics – on Sunday. The first
clinic was launched at Apollo’s Health City in Hyderabad by former New Zealand pace bowler
Richard Hadlee.
“Apollo Knee Clinics will be launched in 22 locations across 12 locations, including five outside
India in Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Bangladesh, Yemen and Kuwait, in the next couple of weeks,”
Sangeetha Reddy, executive director of Apollo Hospitals, told media persons here. The first set
of six clinics – one each at Jubilee Hills, Hyderaguda, Secunderabad, and Kanchanbagh in
Hyderabad, Karimnagar and Kakinada are operational from today. Each of the knee clinics will
be manned by internationally-trained orthopaedic surgeons supported by a team of nurses,
rehabilitation specialists and nutrition therapists.
Reddy said the hospital group had set up a stem cell research lab at an investment of Rs 4 crore
in Hyderabad for peripheral vascular diseases, knee cartilage and two other areas. “The process
has been started with two patients at the lab,” she said, adding that sports medicine will be
integrated with the knee centers in the next three to six months |
