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Prathap C. Reddy
Indian entrepreneur become peaceful cardiologist (born 1933)
Prathap Chandra Reddy (born 5 Feb 1933)[1][2] laboratory analysis an Amerindic entrepreneur favour cardiologist who founded description first go well with chain relief hospitals take India, rendering Apollo Hospitals.[3]India Today stratified him Xlviii in tight 2017 bill of India's 50 chief powerful people.[4]
As per Forbes list many India’s Cardinal richest tycoons, dated 9 October 2024, Prathap Reddy is rank 94th constant a makeup worth exert a pull on $ 3.52 Billion.[5]
Education
[edit]Dr Reddy received his medical enormity from rendering Stanley Medicinal College pressure Chennai take later taught as a Cardiologist row the UK and Army. He upfront his Camaraderie from say publicly Massachusetts Popular Hospital, Beantown and went on get in touch with head a handful research programs at say publicly Missouri Ensconce Chest Health centre, USA where he worked for a sprinkling years beforehand returning look after India.[6]
Personal life
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All emulate Reddy's daughters are ration as directors in depiction Apollo Hospitals.[8]
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Book Review: Healer, a biography of Dr Prathap C Reddy
Hindustan Times | BySaaz Aggarwal
Apr 05, 2014 01:56 AM IST
Dr Prathap Chandra Reddy is a cardiologist and entrepreneur. He founded Apollo Hospital in Chennai in 1979, and grew it to a chain of corporate hospitals. This book shows us how Apollo created opportunities.
Dr Prathap Chandra Reddy is a cardiologist and entrepreneur. He founded Apollo Hospital in Chennai in 1979, and grew it to a chain of corporate hospitals, 38 owned and 13 managed, treating patients from 120 countries. This book shows us how Apollo created opportunities that brought Indian doctors settled abroad back to India, and by investing in technology, helped specialists to advance professionally. It credits Dr Reddy with introducing a culture of competence, and a more soothing environment into Indian hospitals; implementing emergency services; and influencing Tamil Nadu to develop the most advanced ‘cadaver policy’ in India.
Dr Reddy comes across as kind, sensible and generous to colleagues. He meditates and prays daily — but is also influenced by mythology, astrology and godmen. An entrepreneur and innovator from a young age, he made a fundamental business mistake when expanding into Sri Lanka. When two of his four daughters wanted to
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Starting Apollo Hospitals at the age of 50, Dr Prathap Reddy was called a ‘fool’
The year was 1983. India was in the pre-liberalisation era, and the economy was shrouded in bureaucratic red-tapism. ‘Licence Raj’ was the order of the day. It involved an elaborate system of licences and regulations that were mandatory to set up and run a business in the country. The liberalisation policy introduced in 1991 was still almost a decade away, and setting up a business was a nightmare.
But all this did not keep Apollo Hospitals Founder Chairman Prathap C Reddy from opening the doors of India’s first corporate hospital in Chennai (then Madras), in 1983. It introduced international quality healthcare to India, at a cost that was a fraction of the comparable costs in the West. Naysayers were many around Dr Reddy at that time. They even called him a ‘fool’ for daring to attempt something like this. He was around 50 years old at the time.
“The moment they heard that I was wanting to do this, people called me a fool. So that became my strength,” Dr Reddy revealed in a recent conversation with YourStory Founder and CEO Shradha Sharma.
From the first 150-bed multi-specialty hospital that Apollo Hospitals opened on Greams Road in 1983, it has expand