Uninsured Jeff Clarks, Kitchener, Ontario opts for surgery at Apollo Hospitals, India

Uninsured Jeff Clarks, Kitchener, Ontario opts for surgery at Apollo Hospitals, India
August 24, 2007
Jeff Clarks suffered from severe back pain that almost crippled his normal life. He was surviving on pain killers with no hope being offered by surgeons in his country. When a Jeff heard about the JCI Accredited, Apollo Hospitals, India, with doctors trained in the UK – he decided to end the pain and uncertainly and get his treatment there.

The Apollo group hospitals are multi specialty tertiary care facilities with centers-of-excellence in medical disciplines including cardiology, cardio-thoracic surgery, gastroenterology, orthopedics & joint replacement surgery, neurology, critical care medicine, nephrology, oncology, hand & micro surgery and reproductive medicine.

The hospital has pioneered several cardiac and orthopedic procedures - including India’s first beating heart surgery in which the hospital maintains over 99Content-Dispositionuccess rate. The hospital is also the first in India to perform Lumbar Disc Replacement surgery, Total Knee Replacement surgery, Birmingham Hip Replacement Surgery and the Illizarov Procedure for limb lengthening. Across all specialties the hospital’s success record is on par – if not better, than its counterparts in the West. This is largely due to the hospitals eminent team of specialist doctors and surgeons most of whom are trained in the US or UK and also its investment in the latest diagnostic equipment such as 64-Slice CT Scan, Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE), Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA), MRI, Linear Accelerator and Asia's largest sleep lab (polysomnography). Visit www.apollohospitals.com

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