Mr. Elkaaar Singh Rajput, 56-year-old male was diagnosed to have high blood pressure about 11 years back. He consulted many doctors and was taking 8 different medicines in maximal doses every day for controlling his blood pressure. In spite of this, his BP was not under control and was having recurrent weakness in his arms and impending paralysis.

He approached Apollo Hospitals, Indore for treatment of his blood pressure. He successfully underwent Renal Denervation procedure on 17th October 2020 performed by the team of doctors comprising of Dr K. Roshan Rao, Dr Sarita Rao, Dr Kshitij Dubey, Dr Vikas Gupta and Dr Shirish Agrawal. This is the first procedure of this kind in Central India and second in the Indian subcontinent.

Dr. K Roshan Rao, Head of the Cardiology Department quoted that incidentally this procedure was done on World Hypertension day. The theme of this year is “Measure Your Blood Pressure, Control It, Live Longer” which makes people aware of their blood pressure numbers. And what could have been a better day to make people conscious about the disease and to avoid such severe hypertension by apt lifestyle and therapeutic modifications, and to treat what otherwise was untreatable.

Apollo Hospitals is known to create awareness among people to maintain a healthy lifestyle and to introduce new life-saving techniques to treat critically ill patients.