Tamil Nadu: Apollo Hospitals, Dr Prathap Reddy honoured with Postal Stamp
Chennai: Apollo Hospital Enterprise announced on Monday that Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit formally released a postal stamp on Preventive Healthcare at Rajbhavan.
The commemorative stamp honours and acknowledges the Chairman of Apollo Hospitals Dr Prathap C Reddy’s pioneering efforts in encouraging preventive healthcare in India.
Chennai City, Postmaster General R Anand, Vice Chairperson Apollo Hospitals Preetha Reddy, and Ms Suneeta Reddy, Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals attended the special occasion at Raj Bhavan, here.
Over thirty-five years ago, in 1983, Dr Prathap C Reddy had established Apollo Hospitals, India’s first corporate hospital to make advanced medical care accessible to all in the nation. Since then, Apollo Hospitals’ pioneered innumerable initiatives in healthcare management and amongst them, one was the launch of the ‘Master Health Check’, which introduced a culture of preventive healthcare into India. Cognizant of the intrinsic value of good health, Dr. Reddy has been empowering and encouraging fellow Indians to live healthy and screen regularly to diagnose disease early, particularly vital to conquer cancer.
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