Apollo Centre for Advanced Pediatrics

ACAP offers the most comprehensive care in management of problems related to neonatal and children. It has an excellent team of pediatric specialists, who are supported by experts in rehabilitation and physiotherapy, dietetics and nutrition, child guidance, etc. Apollo is the first private sector hospital in India to get the capability of a state of art echocardiography techniques called Intra-Cardiac echo (ICE, which is particularly useful for closing holes in heart without surgery).

Physiotherapy, Dietetics and Nutrition, child Guidance The center has world-class pediatric and neonatal intensive care units. It has to its credit the first pediatric liver transplant in India. The center also provides help for the transport of critically ill babies and children.

The Apollo hospital has taken the initiative to make a cradle which is equipped with some of the most modern technologies and an excellent team of specialists. Yoga and Lamaze classes as well as a parents and siblings education program are conducted in the center. Dr. Raghuram Malliah, neonatologist from Hammersmith Hospital, London, is a full time consultant with The Cradle.

This center offers all-in-one LDR rooms – labor, delivery and recovery all take place in one room. The rooms are made such that they give cheerful ambience to the inmate.

The Cradle offers deluxe suites, each with an attendant room with attached bath, television, music and a balcony. All the rooms are provided with Internet connections.

The hospital also has a gift shop, a florist, a bookshop, a special playroom to keep siblings busy and entertained, and a café where the elders can unwind while having mouth watering snacks.

According to Nidhi Sharma-Kohli, marketing manager at The Cradle, all these facilities have led many women from the American, British, Russian, Turkish, German and African embassies , the Australian High Commission as well as a lot of NRIs to opt for the Apollo hospital rather than going back to their own countries for their deliveries.