Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals is the Apollo group's flagship in Delhi, on Mathura Road at Sarita Vihar in the south-east of the city. It opened in the mid 1990s as a joint venture with the Delhi government and became the reference point for international patients coming to north India, a position it still holds.
For a patient arriving from Bengaluru, two things distinguish it. The first is transplant: liver, kidney and heart transplant programmes all operate here, which is an unusual combination. The second is the sheer experience of handling foreign patients, from visa letters and interpreters to the practical business of billing across currencies.
Why patients choose Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals
Transplant volume comes first. Liver transplant, kidney transplant and cardiac transplant programmes are supported by the intensive care, infection control and long-term follow-up that transplant demands. If you need one of these operations, the number of Indian hospitals doing them properly is small, and this is one of them.
Second, oncology is comprehensive: medical oncology, radiation therapy, surgical oncology, haematology, bone marrow transplant and robotic cancer surgery, with tumour board review.
Third, cardiac sciences and neurosciences are deep, covering complex coronary intervention, valve and aortic surgery, arrhythmia ablation, brain tumour and epilepsy surgery and stroke intervention. Orthopaedics, urology and gastrointestinal surgery carry high volumes of the routine work most patients travel for.
Treatments offered at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals
- Hepatology & Liver Transplant - cirrhosis, hepatitis, liver cancer and living donor liver transplant, adult and paediatric
- Nephrology & Kidney Transplant - dialysis, chronic kidney disease and kidney transplant with post-transplant care
- Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery - angioplasty, bypass grafting, valve and aortic surgery, electrophysiology, heart failure care and cardiac transplant
- Oncology & Cancer Medicine - medical oncology, radiation therapy, surgical oncology, immunotherapy and precision oncology
- Hematology & Blood Disorders - leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma, thalassaemia and marrow failure
- Stem Cell Therapy - autologous and allogeneic bone marrow transplant
- Neurosurgery - brain tumours, epilepsy surgery, skull base surgery, spinal reconstruction and stroke intervention
- Orthopaedics Joints & Spine Surgery - knee and hip replacement, revision arthroplasty, sports injury and spinal surgery
- Urology & Kidney Transplant - robotic urology, urological cancer, stone disease and prostate surgery
- Gastroenterology - therapeutic endoscopy, inflammatory bowel disease and pancreatic and biliary disease
- General Surgery - laparoscopic and robotic abdominal surgery
- Bariatric & Weight Loss Surgery - sleeve gastrectomy, gastric bypass and metabolic surgery
- Gynecology - obstetrics, high-risk pregnancy, gynaecological oncology and laparoscopic surgery
- IVF & Infertility - IVF, ICSI and fertility preservation
- Pediatric Surgery - neonatal surgery, paediatric transplant and paediatric intensive care
- Endocrinology & Diabetes - diabetes, thyroid, pituitary and metabolic bone disease
- ENT Surgery - head and neck cancer surgery, ear surgery, sinus surgery and cochlear implants
- Ophthalmology - cataract, cornea, retina and glaucoma surgery
- Plastic & Cosmetic Surgery - microvascular reconstruction, burns and aesthetic surgery
- Vascular Surgery - aortic aneurysm repair, carotid surgery and limb salvage
- Rheumatology - rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and vasculitis
- Dermatology - medical, surgical and laser dermatology
- Dental Treatment - dental clearance before transplant and chemotherapy, restorative dentistry
- Infectious Disease - sepsis, tuberculosis, tropical infection and infection in transplant patients
If transplant is the reason you are coming
Start with paperwork, not medicine. Living related transplant in India requires documentary proof of the donor relationship, and foreign nationals need embassy attestation plus clearance from a statutory authorisation committee. That process routinely takes several weeks and no hospital can compress it.
Ask for the donor work-up cost separately from the recipient package. Ask what happens financially if the donor is rejected during assessment. Ask for the unit's one-year graft and patient survival figures, and for the cost of the first year of immunosuppression and monitoring, which is often left out of headline quotes. Then arrange, before you leave India, who will supervise drug levels once you are back in Bengaluru.
