Apollo Hospitals
Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited is an Indian multinational healthcare group headquartered in Chennai. Apart from the eponymous hospital chain, the company also operates pharmacies, primary care and diagnostic centres, and telehealth clinics through its subsidiaries. The company was founded by Prathap C. Reddy in 1983 as the first corporate healthcare provider in India. Several of Apollo's hospitals have been among the first in India to receive international healthcare accreditation by the America-based Joint Commission International (JCI) as well as NABH accreditation. History. It was founded by Prathap C. Reddy in 1983 as the first corporate health  care in India. The first branch at Chennai was inaugurated by the then President of India Zail Singh. Apollo developed telemedicine services, after starting a pilot project in 2000 at Aragonda, Prathap Reddy's home village. In December 2012, Apollo Hospitals sold its 38% stake in Apollo Health Street, the group's healthcare business process outsourcing division, to Sutherland Global Services for . Apollo signed an MoU with Health Education England in April 2017 to provide a large number of doctors to fill vacancies in the English National Health Service. In January 2020, Apollo Hospitals sold its 50.80% percent majority stake  in Apollo Munich Health Insurance to HDFC for . Subsidiaries. Apollo HealthCo. Apollo HealthCo was formed in 2021 with the merger of the group's non-hospital pharmacy chain Apollo Pharmacy and its digital healthcare business known as Apollo 24/7. Apollo Health and Lifestyle. Apollo Health and Lifestyle is the primary care arm of the group which operates multi-specialty clinics under Apollo Clinics, diagnostics and pathology labs under Apollo Diagnostics, diabetes clinics under Apollo Sugar, dental hospitals under Apollo White, dialysis centres under Apollo Dialysis, surgical hospitals under Apollo Spectra, women/children hospitals under Apollo Cradle, and fertility clinics under  Apollo Fertility. Apollo TeleHealth Services. Apollo TeleHealth Services owns the telehealth network of the group, operating via a business-to-consumer model under which it offers direct services like online consultations, appointment booking, medicine delivery, among others; a business-to-business offering to corporates for their employees; and a business-to-government agreement providing telehealth services in partnership with public health systems. Established in 1999, it is headquartered in Hyderabad and has more than 100 franchised teleclinics.