In an endeavor to spread awareness about prevention of liver disease and to emphasize the importance of treatment, patients and doctors from Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals had come together to run at the Airtel Delhi Marathon.
According to the statistics, every 3 minutes a patient is added to the list of patients needing a transplant. More than 200,000 Indians require organ transplantation annually, an estimated 20,000 liver transplants are required per year in India.
Addressing this concern, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals will bring together patients from Nepal, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi. Motivating them throughout the marathon would be a team of doctors present, also participating to spread awareness on the need of organ donation.
Having undergone a complicated liver transplantation surgery three years back, fourteen year old Anil Lamsal, like others, is today leading a healthy and a normal life. “It is very heartening to see patients participating in the Marathon; Anil is doing very well in school and is very active on field. This initiative of spreading awareness on liver transplants is a small step towards our quest for creating awareness amongst the masses” said Dr. Subhash Gupta, Sr. Consultant, Liver Transplant, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, who also took part in the marathon.
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals has been a pioneer in the field of liver transplant surgeries in India and Liver transplantation is now an established mode of treatment for patients suffering from an end stage liver failure in India. Major strides have been made in surgical techniques, anesthesia, critical- care and monitoring over the last three decades, which have made this procedure a standard and an acceptable therapy. Such health parades accelerate the awareness drive on sensitive health issues and encourage healthy living.
About Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, India’s first JCI accredited hospital, is a joint venture between the Government of Delhi and Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited. Commissioned in July 1996, it is the third super-specialty tertiary care hospital set up by the Apollo Hospitals Group. Spread over 15 acres, it houses 57 specialties with more than 300 specialists and more than 600 operational beds, 19 operation theatres, 138 ICU beds, round-the-clock pharmacy, NABL accredited laboratories, 24-hour emergency services and an active air ambulance service. Apollo Hospitals Delhi has the leading programme in kidney and liver transplant in the country. The first successful pediatrics and adult liver transplants in India were performed at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals. The hospital is at the forefront of medical technology and expertise. It provides a complete range of latest diagnostic, medical and surgical facilities for the care of its patients. The Hospital has introduced the most sophisticated imaging technology to India with the introduction of 64 slice CT and 3 Tesla MRI. Indraprastha Apollo has also pioneered the concept of preventive health check programmes and has created a satisfied customer base over decades. Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals received the FICCI Healthcare Excellence Awards in September 2009 for best patient care and excellence in healthcare delivery and has been consistently ranked amongst the best 10 hospitals in India by the Week IMRB survey for the past few years. The Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals has been ranked the second best multi-speciality hospital after a collaborative research survey by The Week/Hansa on top 10-multi-speciality hospitals across 10 cities – Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Coimbatore and Kochi.
