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Apollo Hospitals launch robot for stroke
treatment
Saturday October 29, 2011 07:58:48 PM,
IANS
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Hyderabad:
Apollo Hospitals, India's biggest corporate hospital chain,
Saturday launched "stroke Robot" which enables real-time quality
care to stroke patients in areas far away from major cities.
The RP-7 remote presence Robot is a mobile robotic platform that
enables the physician to remotely monitor and guide the treatment
of stroke.
Apollo Group of Hospitals chairman Prathap C. Reddy told reporters
that it is the first and only US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared
remote presence device. It is also claimed to be the first such
technology made available in India by the US.
RP-7 leverages wireless, internet and robotic technology which
enables a physician to "e-reach" immediately to the patient's
bedside in remote location to render care.
The first unit with command and control system, costing Rs.15
million, has been installed at Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad.
The group plans to have one system each at seven of its hospitals
with a neurology department in the country over the next one year.
"We plan to connect five to six hospitals around every centre,"
Reddy said.
The hospital will charge Rs.10,000 in excess for providing
services through this new technology.
The hospital authorities also made a live demonstration of the
technology with a neurologist in China monitoring and guiding the
treatment of a patient at Apollo, Hyderabad.
Doctors said as the first 4.5 hours after the stroke are
considered crucial for treatment and 60 to 70 percent patients
don't reach the hospital even in 48 hours, the robotic technology
will be of immense help in reaching care to the patient
immediately.
Noting that India with a population of 1.2 billion has only 800
neurophysicians, they said RP-7 enables access to scarce
expertise.
According to doctors, one in six people get a stroke in their
lifetime. A million people die in India every year due to stroke.
India ranks second in the world after China in the number of
deaths caused by strokes.
Oct 29 is observed as World Stroke Day to underscore the serious
nature and high rates of stroke, raise awareness of the prevention
and treatment of the condition, and ensure better care and support
for survivors. The annual event was started in 2006 by the World
Stroke Organization (WSO).
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