It was in 1983 that Dr Prathap Reddy made a pioneering endeavour by launching India’s first corporate hospital – Apollo Hospitals – in Madras (now known as Chennai). As the foremost integrated healthcare group in Asia, its presence includes 9,834 beds across 69 hospitals, 3,250 pharmacies, over 200 primary care and diagnostic clinics, more than 150 telemedicine centres and over 150 Apollo Munich Insurance branches spanning the length and breadth of the country. The organization’s fiscal year 2018 turnover was $1.18 billion.