Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai Launches State-of-

the-Art Bone Marrow Transplant Unit

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India – Business Wire India

• Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai is the 77th registered BMT Unit in India
• Comprehensive Cancer Centre in Western India

Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai, the leading multi-speciality tertiary care hospital accredited with JCI and NABH
quality accreditation, recently launched an advanced 3-bed HEPA filtered Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) unit. The
new unit, a standalone dedicated facility for bone marrow transplantation, will bring international standards of
cancer care to offer patients from Navi Mumbai and surrounding areas an accessible facility for bone marrow
transplant. The state-of-the-art advanced BMT unit will provide quality cancer care and treatment and will be
supported by an experienced and qualified team of haemato-oncologists, BMT Physician and trained nursing staff.

The BMT Unit will cater to patients with blood cancer including leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma as well as other
hematological disorders like thalassemia, aplastic anemia, sickle cell disease and inherited immune deficiency
disorders. Bone Marrow Transplant is a life-saving procedure and is the only way to cure many of the patients
diagnosed with a blood cancer. BMT involves taking a patient's damaged or destroyed bone marrow stem cells
and replacing them with healthy stem cells from a donor. BMT can be autologous or allogenic. Autologous
transplants use the patient’s own blood cells, while allogenic transplants use cells from a matched donor.

The BMT unit was inaugurated by Dr. AbhijatSheth, President National Board of Examinations, Ministry of Health
& Family Welfare Govt. of India and Dr. NavinKhattry, Deputy Director ACTREC, Professor & Head, BMT Unit,
Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai.

Dr. Narendra Trivedi, CEO, Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai said, “There are around many people who are diagnosed
with blood cancer or other life-threatening disorders of the blood every year in the country. Bone Marrow
Transplantation is the only hope that these patients have for a cure. The new BMT unit will offer world-class facilities
to patients with support throughout the treatment from evaluation and preparation to the bone marrow transplant
procedure followed by long-term monitoring after the transplant. The BMT unit will have facilities for both autologous
and allogenic transplants.”

The 3 HEPA filtered rooms each have a dedicated Air Handling Unit to ensure strict infection control. A separate
laminar flow for sterile chemotherapy preparation is dedicated to the transplant patients. The BMT unit also has a
Cryopreservation Unit with -80c deep freezers for long term storage of stem cells. The transplant rooms have been
provided with laminar flow and other facilities for infection control.

Dr. Punit Jain, Senior Consultant, Haemato-Oncology & BMT Physician, Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai said, “Our
team of experienced doctors supported by the advanced infrastructure and technology will offer treatment at par
with international standards. Bone Marrow Transplant is a complex procedure and requires teamwork between
multiple specialties including transfusion medicine, clinical hematology, pathology, microbiology, immunology, and
pharmacology.”

CONTACT:

Media contact details:

Satish Manjunath, Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai, +91-7710010167