Apollo Hospitals inks pact with Stanford University

Healthcare major Apollo Hospitals has signed a pact with Stanford University to gain insights into cardiovascular risks reduction in South Asians.
Apollo Hospitals has "signed an MoU with Stanford University for the Stanford South Asian Translational Heart Initiative (SSATHI) related to South Asians and chronic disease," the healthcare provider said in a statement.
Conceptualised with an overall objective to reduce cardiovascular mortality in South Asians, as per the MoU, both parties will attempt to delve deeper into causes associated with cardiovascular risk in diabetic and prediabetic South Asians, it added.
"Both the organisations are driven by the same objective of strengthening and broadening research on Non Communicable Diseases (NCD's), while also promoting the need for healthy living," the statement said.

While initiatives like the collaboration with Stanford are aimed at fighting the rising incidences of NCD's, Apollo Hospitals has also been emphasising on the need to control communicable diseases, which is also a growing concern, it added.
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"The expansion of the pan-India hospital network will cross a new frontier with the commissioning of the Navi Mumbai hospital. Even as we launch and add the 71st hospital to the network with bed capacity set to surpass 10,000 beds...", Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Chairman Prathap C Reddy said.
The company continues to incorporate innovative technologies with an emphasis on patient centricity, he added.