The Emergency Department at Apollo Hospitals Visakhapatnam provides care to patients with urgent medical conditions ranging from complex problems such as heart attacks and strokes to simple but pressing conditions such as cuts and broken bones. The Emergency Department is prepared and equipped to provide comprehensive and efficient emergency care to patients in need of medical and surgical specialty care to treat critical and acute illnesses and injuries 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
The Emergency Department has been designed to enhance every aspect of the patient-centered care experience. The clinical area features the latest technologies in health care to complement our world-class emergency physicians, nurses and other health care providers. Our department is a 10 bed emergency unit with a separate decontamination room, Isolation room, minor OT facilities, fully equipped to take care of all clinical emergencies with a 24×7 backup from critical care units, cardiac cathlab, 128 slice CT Scanners, MRI 1.5 Tesla other diagnostics, labs running / functioning round the clock.
Ambulance Services
Our ambulances are hospital on wheels, equipped with advanced life support systems, EMT’s / Paramedics with dedicated 1066 emergency number. Our Patient Transportation Program was designed to provide Emergency and critical care services for patients referred to Apollo Hospitals Visakhapatnam. Our ambulance crew consists of trained EMT/Paramedic, Pilots we also have a patient transportation team including and Emergency Physician, Paramedic and a Pilot.
Our emergency department is geared up to cope with all kinds of disasters, civil and other emergencies.