Apollo Hospitals

Apollo Hospitals Enterprise, Ltd.
Apollo Hospitals
Public
Traded as BSE: 508869
NSE: APOLLOHOSP
Industry Healthcare
Founded 1983 (1983)
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Founder Prathap C. Reddy
Headquarters Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Areas served
South Asia, Middle East
Key people
Prathap C. Reddy, Chairman
Preetha Reddy, Managing Director
K. Hari Prasad, President (Hospitals Division)
Revenue ₹5209 crore (US$770 million) (2015)
Number of employees
40,065 (March 2015[1])
Slogan Touching lives
Website www.apollohospitals.com

Apollo Hospitals is an Indian hospital chain based in Chennai, India.[2][3] It was founded by Dr Prathap C. Reddy in 1983 and has hospitals in India, Bangladesh,[4] Kuwait and Qatar.[5] Several of the group's hospitals have been among the first in India to receive international healthcare accreditation by America-based Joint Commission International (JCI).[6]

The group has developed services in telemedicine, after starting a pilot project in 2000 in Pratap Reddy's home village.[7] At present, Apollo hospitals are present in 120 countries around the world.

Awards and recognition

A stamp was released on 2 November 2009 to commemorate the service of Apollo Hospitals[8] The group's "Billion Hearts Beating" campaign,[9] a national communication campaign of the Apollo Hospitals Group and the Times of India, won the "Global Award for Brand Excellence" of the "Campaign of the Year Award" at the World Brand Congress 2010 at Mumbai.[10]

Awards

Apollo Munich Health Insurance based at Gurgaon has won the prestigious Insurer of the year award in the year 2013, Innovation of the year award from Asia Insurance Review in 2012 among other.[11][12]

National Health Service

The organisation signed a ‘memorandum of understanding’ with Health Education England in April 2016 to provide a large number of doctors to fill vacancies in the English National Health Service.[13]

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