Apollo Hospital DRDO, Hyderabad

Apollo Hospitals DRDO is a tertiary-care centre in Kanchanbagh, Hyderabad. Conceived in 1996 and operational since 2001, it originally developed with support for defence laboratory employees and also treats the wider public. Dedicated centres cover cardiology, orthopaedics, neurosciences and emergency medicine, with gynaecology, nephrology, urology, critical care, general surgery and internal medicine available on the same campus.

Cardiac procedures include angioplasty, rotablation, coronary bypass grafting, valve surgery, TAVI or TAVR, MitraClip and implantation of pacemakers, defibrillators or cardiac resynchronisation devices. General surgeons perform appendicectomy, hernia repair, laparoscopic gallbladder removal, upper gastrointestinal operations and thyroid or parathyroid surgery. Colorectal work includes cancer resection and partial or total colectomy, while bariatric options include sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass.

More than 50 intensive-care beds are distributed across surgical, medical, cardiac and burns units. Children are supported by a ten-bed paediatric ICU and six-bed neonatal ICU. The diagnostic and procedural infrastructure includes CT, colour Doppler, laboratories, a digital catheterisation laboratory, dialysis and operating theatres equipped for open-heart and orthopaedic operations. Emergency and trauma care runs continuously.

The hospital is a potential choice for people needing complex heart intervention, major abdominal surgery, intensive monitoring, dialysis or treatment for neurological and musculoskeletal disease. ENT teams also undertake tonsil and adenoid removal, septoplasty, functional endoscopic sinus surgery, cochlear implantation and endoscopic skull-base operations. Because several high-acuity departments are co-located, clinicians can bring in critical-care, renal or neurological expertise when another illness affects the safety of a planned procedure. Postoperative care is matched to clinical risk, ranging from ward observation to specialist intensive-care support and structured follow-up.