American Tennis Player

Norma K is an American tennis player who tore an ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) while playing tennis in the United States. Being uninsured, she was unable to afford the surgery to repair or reconstruct the torn ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) in the US which was tagged at $40,000, she went to Apollo Hospitals, India to have the ACL repair surgery for only $3,200.

Apollo Hospitals is a JCI Accreditted Hospital and is part of the largest healthcare group in Asia. The Apollo group hospitals are multi specialty tertiary care facilities with centers-of-excellence in medical disciplines including cardiology, cardio-thoracic surgery, gastroenterology, orthopedics & joint replacement surgery, neurology, critical care medicine, nephrology, oncology, hand & micro surgery and reproductive medicine.

The hospital has pioneered several cardiac and orthopedic procedures – including India’s first beating heart surgery in which the hospital maintains over 99Content-Dispositionuccess rate. The hospital is also the first in India to perform Lumbar Disc Replacement surgery, Total Knee Replacement surgery, Birmingham Hip Replacement Surgery and the Illizarov Procedure for limb lengthening. Across all specialties the hospital’s success record is on par if not better, than its counterparts in the West. This is largely due to the hospitals eminent team of specialist doctors and surgeons most of whom are trained in the US or UK and also its investment in the latest diagnostic equipment such as 64-Slice CT Scan, Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE), Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA), MRI, Linear Accelerator and Asia’s largest sleep lab (polysomnography). Visit www.apollohospitals.com