Apollo Hospitals Greams Road in Chennai is where Indian corporate healthcare began. It opened in 1983 as the country's first hospital of its kind and effectively created the medical travel industry that now brings patients to India from across Africa, South Asia and the Middle East. The campus sits on Greams Lane off Greams Road, in the middle of the city near Thousand Lights.
For a patient arriving from Bengaluru, the practical advantage is accumulated experience. This hospital has been handling foreign patients for forty years, so the systems for records, estimates, visas, interpreters, currency and follow-up are worn in rather than newly built.
Why patients choose Apollo Hospitals Greams Road
Cardiac sciences and transplant carry the reputation. Coronary intervention, bypass grafting, valve and aortic surgery, arrhythmia work and paediatric cardiac surgery run alongside kidney, liver and bone marrow transplant programmes.
Second, oncology, with medical, surgical and radiation oncology and haematology, supported by tumour board review. Chennai as a whole has unusual depth in cancer treatment.
Third, the wider service: neurosciences, orthopaedics and joint replacement, urology including robotic surgery, gastroenterology and hepatology, obstetrics and paediatrics, all with intensive care support.
Being in central Chennai matters practically. Hotels, guest houses and long-stay accommodation are within walking distance or a short ride, which is not true of hospitals built on city outskirts, and Chennai International Airport is a manageable drive.
Treatments offered at Apollo Hospitals Greams Road
- Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery - angioplasty, bypass grafting, valve and aortic surgery, electrophysiology, heart failure care and paediatric cardiac surgery
- Nephrology & Kidney Transplant - dialysis, chronic kidney disease and kidney transplant
- Hepatology & Liver Transplant - cirrhosis, hepatitis, liver cancer and living donor liver transplant
- Stem Cell Therapy - autologous and allogeneic bone marrow transplant
- Hematology & Blood Disorders - leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma, thalassaemia and marrow failure
- Oncology & Cancer Medicine - medical oncology, radiation therapy, surgical oncology and targeted therapy
- Neurosurgery - brain tumours, epilepsy surgery, spinal reconstruction and stroke intervention
- Orthopaedics Joints & Spine Surgery - knee and hip replacement, revision arthroplasty, arthroscopy 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 cardiac surgery and paediatric intensive care
- Endocrinology & Diabetes - diabetes, thyroid, pituitary and metabolic disorders
- ENT Surgery - ear surgery, sinus surgery, cochlear implants and head and neck procedures
- Ophthalmology - cataract, cornea, retina and glaucoma surgery
- Plastic & Cosmetic Surgery - microvascular reconstruction, burns and aesthetic surgery
- Vascular Surgery - aortic aneurysm repair, carotid surgery, dialysis access and limb salvage
- Rheumatology - rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and vasculitis
- Dermatology - medical, surgical and laser dermatology
- Dental Treatment - dental clearance before transplant and cardiac surgery, restorative dentistry
- Infectious Disease - sepsis, tuberculosis, tropical infection and infection in transplant patients
What forty years of international practice means for you
Use it. Ask the international office for a written treatment plan, an itemised estimate, a visa invitation letter, an airport transfer, and a named coordinator you can contact throughout. All of that is standard here, and asking for it in writing costs nothing.
Ask clinical questions with the same directness. The surgeon's annual volume of your specific operation. Whether a less invasive alternative is reasonable. What the intensive care assumption in the estimate is. What the plan is if the first treatment does not work. Long-established hospitals answer these calmly; hesitation is itself informative.
