Apple Hospitals & Research Institute Ltd

Name :

Apple Hospitals & Research Institute Ltd

Address  :

525/E,Vyapari Peth
Shahupuri

Town  :

Kolhapur

State  :

Maharashtra

Country  :

INDIA

Post Code:

416 001

Phone  :

+91-0231-2651207

Fax  :

91 0231 2654850

Web URL  :

Available

Email  :

appledocs@rediffmail.com

Description

Apple Hospitals was launched in 1994 by a small group of likeminded people from the medical fraternity Dr Ashok Bhupali a well known cardiologist found an overwhelming need to form such a diagnostic centre as during those days patients from Kolhapur and surrounding districts had to travel to far off places like Mumbai Pune Bangalore even for primary diagnostic investigations and spend a lot of money DR Kiran Patankar an expert sonologist joined him and the organization initiated its humble beginning in a small rented 640 sq ft place at Bhausingji Road Kolhapur They formed a Private limited company with the help of 50 medical professionals

Beginning with a BampW Ultrasound Machine GE RT3200 initially they concentrated fully on Ultrasonography and 2D Echocardiography The aim was to develop a diagnostic center with the BEST amp THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY Adding newer gadgets in a phased manner persuaded the objective

The encouraging support amp overwhelming response by the medical fraternity and the general public encouraged the founders to change the constitution from a private limited to a Public Limited Company in April 1997

Today the company has more than 450 shareholders Almost all shareholders belong to the medical fraternity as by constitution the shareholding is open only for the medical professionals

The mission of providing highest quality services to medical professionals amp most cost competitive service to the patients amp the society was taken up Therefore the Directors decided to pursue the task of availing the best and the latest technology and periodically kept on adding new diagnostic instruments such as whole body colour doppler Philips HDI UM 9 and Marquets MAX1 stress test including 24 hour Holter monitoring system

In 1997 a new premises of 15000 sq ft was purchased in the important business area of Shahupuri Kolhapur This enabled the company to add newer highend diagnostic equipments to establish its claim as a complete diagnostic centre

300MA XRAY GEUSA with II amp CRAgfa 64Slice Multiscanner Cardiac CT Siemens and Colour Doppler Echocardiography SYSTEM V was added in a phased manner

A computerized pathology department was also set up with all ultra modern equipments viz to complete the portfolio Within first 67 years only Apple had equipped itself with all the ultra modern technology diagnostic instruments to serve the medical fraternity and the society

The quality services provided by APPLE were highly appreciated by the doctors amp the patients as well The response amp faith shown by the medical fraternity amp the society helped the company to venture in to even more sophisticated amp prime diagnostic gadgets

In April 2002 APPLE installed Worlds Best whole body magnetic resonance system 15 Tesla SIEMENS MRI SYMPHONY MAESTRO CLASS

In September 2002 one more Worlds best 3D4D Realtime Anomaly scanner Voluson 730 expert series Colour Doppler GE for the detection of the congenital foetal anomaly

June 2004 was special for APPLE as the dream project of Chairman amp Managing Director of Apple DR Ashok Bhupali became a reality with setting up of modern highly equipped Cardiac Hospital APPLE HEART INSTITUTE

Indias first amp the most advanced First Digital Flat Panel Cath Lab AXIOMARTIS DFCSIEMENS was installed Highly experienced cardiologists medical and paramedical staff cathlab technicians joined this project

Eminent Cardiologists from Kolhapur Pune Miraj and vicinity are performing Cathlab procedures

As per Apples main motto to bring highest technology in affordable cost to the masses our Cathlab project is also designed Apple offers lowest charges only Rs 8000 for Angiographys package Apple proudly announces this distinction as the only company offering this rate all over India

Encouraging response from all corners of the society amp medical practitioners helped Apple to commission the Cardiac Surgery Department with full time resident cardiac surgeon cardiac anesthetist amp the supporting staff

Today two cardiac surgeons two anesthetists wellexperienced perfusionist trained cardiac OT and ITU staff run the department