Apollo Hospital on Tuesday announced a tie-up with University of Rochester Medical Centre, New York, envisaging patient care and academic collaboration.
As part of the tie-up the Rochester University and Apollo Hospital’s under-graduate medical college will have faculty and student exchange programme. Also, the University of Rochester will provide its expertise in designing special curriculum, which will be taught here in addition to the syllabus prescribed by the Medical Council of India.
Prathap C Reddy, Chairman of the Apollo Group, said the two institutions would also share expertise, in-clinical care and research across multiple specialities such as gastroenterology, emergency medicine and neurosciences.
Peter Robinson, COO of the University of Rochester, added that this “is our most comprehensive alliance to date with an Indian institution. I believe that this partnership will help both (the organisations) to deliver the best of western and eastern medicine to our communities.”
Apollo, which celebrated its 25{+t}{+h} anniversary today, also announced an emergency care scheme envisaging screening of school children.
The programme, Healthy Schools, expects to cover 25,000 school kids over the next 25 days. This programme is offered at Rs 200 per student per year, covering screening, maintenance of health record and health education.
Expansion
Reddy said the group was investing Rs 1,500 crore to add ten new hospitals across the country this fiscal, with two of them having been recently opened and the third to be inaugurated within a couple of weeks. “With this expansion, our bed strength will move up from the current 8,400 to 10,500. Financial tie-ups for this expansion have been completed,” he told media persons.