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Apollo Hospitals Stand By Chennai
Highlights
Apollo Hospitals has mobilized its staff across medical, engineering, IT and support divisions to ensure it caters to patients in Chennai.
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Chennai: Apollo Hospitals has mobilized its staff across medical, engineering, IT and support divisions to ensure it caters to patients in Chennai. The doctors, nurses and medical staff at Apollo Hospitals Old Mahabalipuram Road, Vanagaram, and Greams Road have been working relentlessly to provide medical aid to those left stranded by the deluge. Apollo is also tending to patients coming in from other hospitals that were evacuated due to a rise in the water level.
A helpline service has been started and the Apollo team has been actively providing information on their social media pages. 12 pregnant women who reached out to the Apollo team via Facebook are now being given medical assistance. Battling destruction and inundation, the team has been dispatching boats to transport ICU patients and has also been providing free ambulance services to those in need.
As the threat of the floods still looms large, on ground staff at Apollo pharmacy have managed to keep more than 100 outlets functioning. The pharmacies have dispatched essential drugs for diabetics as well as baby food free of cost. With scarcity of food and water, the team has managed to distribute free food to more than 1000 people.
The engineering and housekeeping staff at Apollo hospitals, Greams Road have built a make shift bridge to provide easy access for patients coming in. The entire Apollo team stands united to ensure that the best medical care is being provided to the citizens of Chennai as they grapple to deal with the worst deluge to strike the city in 100 years.
Summary of services by Apollo
Helpline services | ambulance - 1066 and pharmacy – 18605000101
Food services | food packets have been distributed to more than 1000 people
Pharmacy | medicines for diabetics & baby food for infants available on request
Logistics| team of engineers & hospital staff have built a make-shift bridge to enable easy access to patients to Greams Road Apollo
Medical Staff | 400 doctors deputed across hospitals in Chennai. More than 2000 nurses deployed to support the incoming patients
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