About Hospital

• Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata, was founded in 2003 and is the ideal blend of technical brilliance, infrastructure, competent care, and genuine hospitality.
• It is a collaboration between the Apollo Group of Hospitals in India and Parkway Health in Singapore.
• Parkway Group is Asia's largest healthcare conglomerate. It supplies more than 70% of Singapore's private healthcare. Parkway Group Healthcare, one of its companies, has a network of regional hospitals and medical centers in Malaysia, India, and Brunei.
• THE WEEK-A C Nielsen, Finest Hospital Survey 2013, named Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals the best multi-specialty hospital in Kolkata.
• Apollo Gleneagles Cancer Hospital has also introduced Novalis TX with Brain LAB, a novel radiation therapy device (RT). This method has the advantage of destroying tumors while causing minimal harm to normal tissues.
• Other major services provided include IGRT THERAPY, IMRT THERAPY, Comprehensive Brachytherapy by image 4D-CRT, and Knifeless Brain Surgery by Radiosurgery, all for the first time in Eastern India.
• It is Eastern India's first hospital to be recognised by the Joint Commission Worldwide (JCI), the international standard for health treatment.
• The Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals in Kolkata have introduced India's first Cellvizio System.
• It performed East India's first Reverse Shoulder Prosthesis Replacement.

Accreditation 

• It is Eastern India's first hospital to be recognised by the Joint Commission Worldwide (JCI), the international standard for health treatment.
• They are also acclaimed for carrying out the first cadaver transplant in Eastern India.

Speciality 

• The ophthalmologic department has a well-trained clinical excellence staff that has performed over 1000 eye procedures successfully in its first year of operation.
• Novalis Tx radiosurgery & radiation is one of the most modern treatment methods offered in the oncology department.
• In the main hospital, there is a 100-bed cancer unit as well as a 50-bed surgery facility.
• It performed the first successful critical neurosurgery on a youngster with a critical cyst equivalent to a second head. The eight-month-old youngster was born with Encephalomeningocele, a rare and previously unknown disease. This was the first operation of its sort in the whole country.
• Apollo Gleneagles is the first hospital in Eastern India to host a live workshop on CARTO, or Electrophysiology Mapping Technique.

Location 

• 58, Canal Circular Road, Kadapara, Kolkata 700054, India

Infrastructure 

• The Apollo Gleneagles Hospital has 700 beds.
• The Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals (AGH) Food and Beverage Department in Kolkata is the first in India to receive the coveted ISO 22000:2005 - HACCP accreditation. The British Standards Institution has certified it (BSIUK).
• The Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals in Kolkata were the first in Eastern India to introduce the 64-Slice CT Angio Scan, a non-surgical diagnostic used to check coronary health and anticipate heart disease.
• Introduce MRI with PET technology and Radio Frequency Ablation for gastrointestinal cancers.
• Introduce Narrow Band Imaging (NBI) and Fujinon Intelligent Contrast Enhancement (FICE), two cutting-edge technologies for gastrointestinal disease therapy.
• Provide complementary therapies such as Panic Healing and Ayurveda.
• Introduce 3-D mapping in electrophysiology studies - critical for heart arrhythmia therapy.
• Establish a separate unit for day care surgery.
• To implant a Dual Chamber ICD- the most recent device for preventing Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD).
• Present the Integrated Psychometric Testing Unit.

Ranking 

• The general ranking of Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata is 4.0, with Job Security receiving a rating of 4.1.