Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Group, Chair - G20 Empower India & Past President - FICCI
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Dr. Sangita Reddy is a Global Healthcare Leader, Indian Entrepreneur and Humanitarian. She is the Joint Managing Director of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited - Asia's largest and most trusted healthcare group. Dr. Sangita Reddy is also the immediate past president of The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
Passionately committed to transforming healthcare system through technological advancements, she is accelerating positive transformation for effective healthcare service delivery. She has been conferred with an Honorary Doctorate by Macquarie University Australia, in recognition of her untiring efforts and resolute commitment to bringing transformative changes in healthcare, development of Health IT and championing manifold initiatives both in India and abroad. She is the Honorary Consul of Brazil in Hyderabad, appointed by the Govt. of India and also an erstwhile member of the World Economic Forum.
Influencing Global Healthcare - Dr. Sangita Reddy is a member of The World Economic Forum, Rockefeller working Group, past member on Health for the Twelfth Five Year Plan, Planning Commission, Govt of India. She is also a Member of the Tech Devpt Board, Department of Science and Tech, Govt of India and is an Executive Member at NASSCOM.
Driving Healthcare Technology & Innovation - Dr. Sangita Reddy is focused on setting benchmarks in futuristic health care projects enabling IOT, AI, Data Analytics, Drone Tech and Block Chain. Under her leadership, Apollo Hospitals received three consecutive HiMSS-Elsevier ICT achievement awards and four hospitals have achieved the HiMSS Level-6 certification.
An Entrepreneur Promoting Affordable and Sustainable Social Initiatives - One of her initiatives, Apollo Reach, aims to build a string of secondary care hospitals in rural India. Dr. Sangita Reddy is also Chairman at Apollo Knowledge, an education initiative focused on shaping healthcare human capital for tomorrow by setting up of Medical Colleges, the online learning platform Medvarsity and Apollo MedSkills.
Driving Humanitarian Initiatives - Dr. Sangita Reddy heads Apollo Philanthropy, an umbrella entity encompassing ‘Save a Child’s Heart Initiative’, SAHI, CURE and the Billion Hearts Beating Foundation and Total Health Foundation.
Awards and Recognitions - Dr. Sangita Reddy has been a recipient of numerous prestigious awards for business and leadership in the health care industry.
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Dr. Sangita Reddy reposted thisDr. Sangita Reddy reposted thisAt our event Aksha: Bharat Innovates for Social Good, Dr. Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals, speaks on how the healthcare ecosystem in India has evolved. Watch the video to learn more! Shereen Bhan #Aksha #BharatInnovates #SocialGood
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Dr. Sangita Reddy reposted thisDr. Sangita Reddy reposted thisIndia’s Healthcare Innovation Finds a Global Market The next frontier is not importing healthcare solutions, but developing affordable models that can scale across emerging economies. August 28, 2026 | New Delhi India’s healthcare innovation is increasingly moving in one direction: from adapting global solutions to creating models with global relevance. That shift carries economic significance. India combines scale, entrepreneurial capacity and digital public infrastructure with a healthcare system that has had to solve for affordability and access. The result is a growing ecosystem of solutions in telemedicine, preventive care, digital health and technology-enabled delivery. The opportunity extends well beyond India. Emerging economies face many of the same constraints: rising healthcare costs, uneven access, shortages of medical professionals and large populations living far from specialised care. Solutions designed around India’s realities can therefore have relevance across other developing markets. Digital platforms such as eSanjeevani, alongside technology-enabled initiatives such as Medicine from the Sky, illustrate how infrastructure, policy and private innovation can be combined to extend services beyond traditional healthcare facilities. But scaling is the real test. A successful pilot proves that something can work. A successful system proves that it can be affordable, trusted, accessible and replicated. This is where healthcare innovation becomes economic strategy. Lower-cost delivery can improve productivity. Earlier intervention can reduce the long-term burden of disease. Digital systems can expand access without requiring every service to be delivered through expensive physical infrastructure. For economies seeking faster, more inclusive development, these are not marginal benefits. They are part of the productivity equation. The emerging model is therefore not simply technology for healthcare. It is technology, institutions and public infrastructure working together to deliver better outcomes at scale. India’s next opportunity may be to turn that experience into an exportable model of development—particularly for economies facing similar demographic, geographic and fiscal pressures. The most valuable innovation may not be the one that works best in one country, but the one that can work in many. Source: Dr. Sangita Reddy; “Bharat Innovates for Social Good” roundtable, AVPN Global Conference, New Delhi. #BRICS #India #HealthcareInnovation #DigitalHealth #HealthEconomy #DigitalPublicInfrastructure #PreventiveHealthcare #EmergingMarkets #InclusiveGrowth #SouthSouthCooperation
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Dr. Sangita Reddy shared thisFor decades, much of the global healthcare conversation was about bringing the world’s best solutions to India. I believe the direction of travel is changing. India is increasingly creating solutions that can travel from India to the world. That was one of the thoughts I carried from the “Bharat Innovates for Social Good” roundtable, convened through Aksha, the Gates Foundation’s India-focused platform, at the AVPN Global Conference in New Delhi. The conversation was a powerful reminder of how far India’s innovation journey has come from enormous potential to real capability, real outcomes and increasingly, the ability to scale.But in healthcare, I believe we must take this ambition one step further. The future of healthcare cannot be built around waiting for people to become patients. It has to be about predicting risk earlier, preventing disease, preserving health and taking care closer to where people live and work. This has been a personal conviction through my journey at Apollo Hospitals. From preventive health checks to increasingly personalised, technology-enabled models such as Apollo ProHealth, we are working to identify risks earlier and enable people to act before those risks become disease. But prevention cannot stop at the hospital door. Through Apollo Total Health, we have seen that health is shaped by far more than medical care. Nutrition, education, livelihoods, sanitation and the environment in which people live all influence health outcomes. The last mile must become the first design constraint. The true test of innovation is not simply whether it works, but whether it can be accessed, afforded, understood, trusted and sustained by the people who need it most. India has a unique advantage: our scale, diversity, entrepreneurial energy and digital public infrastructure give us an extraordinary environment in which to innovatenot just for India, but for the world. We are already seeing this in healthcare. From eSanjeevani taking expertise to the patient, to Medicine from the Sky overcoming geographical barriers, these are examples of what becomes possible when innovation, policy, institutions and execution come together. The next challenge is scale. We do not need more pilots that prove something is possible. We need more institutions willing to make successful innovation part of the system. For me, that is the real promise of Bharat Innovates for Social Good. India can demonstrate a new model of inclusive, affordable, preventive and technology enabled healthcare and share those learnings with the world. India can innovate for the world. India can scale for the world. And perhaps most importantly, India can help the world move from treating illness to preventing it. #BharatInnovates #GlobalHealth #PreventiveHealthcare #HealthcareInnovation #HealthEquity #India #DigitalHealth #PopulationHealth #SocialGood #AVPN2026
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Dr. Sangita Reddy shared thisOne of the biggest barriers to preventive healthcare is something we rarely talk about:"TIME" People do not neglect or postpone their health because they don’t care. They postpone it because life gets in the way. A consultation gets pushed to next week. A health check waits for a less hectic day. A follow-up gets delayed because taking time off work simply isn’t possible. And sometimes, that delay matters. That is why I am particularly proud of what Apollo Hospitals Hospitals has launched today: Always Open. Always Here. We are extending planned healthcare access across all seven days, including Sunday-specialist consultations, diagnostics, preventive health checks, follow-ups and scheduled care. It may sound like a simple change. But I believe it represents something much bigger. Our Health of the Nation findings have shown us how much illness can remain hidden until it becomes a problem. We cannot build a healthier India by waiting for people to become patients.Prevention needs access. And access needs to fit into people’s lives. For me, this is what patient-first healthcare means. Not asking patients to fit around healthcare, but making healthcare fit around patients. It means moving from treating disease to protecting health. From waiting for symptoms to acting early. From responding to crisis to preventing it. I grew up watching my father, Dr. Prathap C. Reddy, challenge what people had accepted as the norm. His question was always simple: What can we do more for the patient? That question continues to guide us. Apollo has spent more than four decades pushing the boundaries of Indian healthcare not simply by bringing advanced treatment to India, but by continually asking how healthcare can become earlier, more accessible and more preventive. Today, we are taking on another barrier: TIME because your body doesn’t run on a six-day week so why should your healthcare? I am immensely proud of our Apollo family our doctors, nurses, technicians and every member of the team whose dedication makes this possible. Healthcare is ultimately a profession of service and sometimes, service means something very simple: Being there when someone finally has the time to take care of themselves. Because every health check done in time, every risk detected early and every disease prevented is more than a healthcare outcome. It is a life protected. A family protected. A future protected. And this is the kind of healthcare system I believe India deserves. One More Day for Health. Always Open. Always Here. #AlwaysOpenAlwaysHere #OneMoreDayForHealth #PatientFirst #PreventiveHealthcare #HealthOfTheNation #HealthcareInnovation #Healthcare #ApolloHospitals
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Dr. Sangita Reddy reposted thisDr. Sangita Reddy reposted this#Q1withETNOW | Apollo Hospitals Q1 occupancy improved to 70% from 65% a year ago - what factors led to this growth and where is the next leg of occupancy growth coming from? MD Suneeta Reddy shares they aim to create 1,000 new bed additions, which will drive ~7% growth in FY27 - listen in Full interview: https://lnkd.in/dsW2XYw3 Ayesha Faridi Vengsarkar Sajeet Manghat Apollo Hospitals #EarningswithETNOW
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Dr. Sangita Reddy reposted thisDr. Sangita Reddy reposted thisNATHEALTH Southern Region Conclave is underway in Hyderabad! Dr. Sangita Reddy, President, NATHEALTH, & Joint MD, Apollo Hospitals, along with Mr. Siddhartha Bhattacharya, Secretary General, NATHEALTH, set the context for the discussions ahead, reflecting on key achievements and outlining the priorities that will shape NATHEALTH’s work in FY 2026–27. From health financing and compliance reform to digital health, quality, workforce mobility, exports and supply-chain convergence, the focus is firmly on translating advocacy into meaningful outcomes for the healthcare ecosystem. As we move into today’s sessions, the conversation will bring together experts from The Convergence Foundation, and EY across these priority areas to explore the challenges, opportunities and next steps for the healthcare sector. Sachin Sharma | Vrinda Chaturvedi | Jayyaa Siingh | Jyotsana Saluja | Owaish Tariq #NATHEALTH #SouthernRegionConclave #Healthcare #HealthcareLeadership #HealthPolicy #IndiaHealthcare
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Dr. Sangita Reddy shared thisCapt. Sully Sullenberger has reminded us that courage is not only about what we do in a crisis. Sometimes, it is about what we are willing to say before the crisis arrives. In 2009, Captain Sully safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River after a bird strike disabled both engines, saving all 155 people on board. Today, he is facing a very different challenge. He has shared publicly that he has been diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease.What moved me was not only the diagnosis, but his decision to speak about it openly.Because this, too, is an act of service. For too many families, cognitive decline is still something discussed quietly, sometimes even in shame. By sharing his own journey, Sully is helping bring Alzheimer’s and brain health into the open and reminding families that they do not have to face it alone.His story also reinforces something I have believed throughout my journey in healthcare: prevention has to begin long before disease becomes visible. We are increasingly proactive about protecting our heart health, managing blood sugar and blood pressure, staying active and maintaining a healthy weight. We need to bring that same mindset to our brains. The health of our brain is deeply connected to the health of the rest of our body our heart, our metabolism, how we sleep, how we move and even how socially connected we remain. Not every case of Alzheimer’s can be prevented. But we should not wait for memory loss or cognitive decline to become visible before we begin thinking about brain health. We should not wait for the first signs of decline to start protecting the organ that defines so much of who we are. That, to me, is an important part of the future of preventive healthcare.Because longevity is not simply about adding years to life. It is about preserving the ability to live those years with health, independence, dignity and purpose. Captain Sully once showed us what courage looks like when 155 lives depended on him. Today, he is showing us another kind of couragespeaking about something deeply personal so that others may feel less alone. And perhaps his message should make all of us in healthcare ask a simple question: If we routinely talk about cardiovascular health, diabetes and cancer prevention, why shouldn't brain health be part of that conversation to? I believe it should. When do you think that conversation should begin? #BrainHealth #PreventiveHealthcare #HealthyLongevity #Alzheimers
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Dr. Sangita Reddy shared thisAfter more than three decades in healthcare, I have come to believe that our greatest success is not measured by the lives we save after disease strikes but by the illnesses we prevent from ever taking hold. That belief has only grown stronger as India undergoes one of the most significant health transitions in its history. Today, non-communicable diseases including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, kidney disease and neurological disorders have overtaken infectious diseases as the leading health challenge for our nation. While longer life expectancy is a remarkable achievement, our responsibility now is to help people live healthier lives, not simply longer ones. The encouraging news is that these diseases rarely appear overnight. Our bodies often send subtle signals years before symptoms emerge a small change in a blood marker, an early finding on imaging or a shift in metabolic health. Today's science allows us to identify these signals early, giving us the opportunity to intervene before disease progresses. This is the true promise of preventive healthcare. Prevention is not about doing more tests. It is about making smarter, more personalised decisions. Every individual has a unique health profile shaped by genetics, family history, lifestyle, environment and age. The right health assessment at 25 is very different from what someone may need at 45 or 60. One misconception continues to concern me: many people believe that if they feel healthy, they don't need a health check. Yet some of the most serious illnesses progress silently until they present as a medical emergency. I often ask a question that challenges all of us in healthcare: When a patient arrives with multiple blocked coronary arteries, where were we when the first artery began to narrow? Or when cancer is diagnosed in Stage III or IV, how different might that journey have been if we had identified it in Stage I? These are not simply clinical questions they are questions about awareness, access and our collective commitment to prevention. Early detection does far more than reduce mortality. It reduces suffering, lowers the complexity and cost of treatment, preserves productivity and gives people the opportunity to live healthier, more fulfilling lives. Before choosing a preventive health assessment, I encourage everyone to ask three questions: • Is it personalised to my age, family history and individual risk? • Will a qualified clinician help me understand the results and the way forward? • Will I leave with a practical plan to reduce my future health risks? Reports alone do not improve health. Understanding them and acting on them does. Technology's greatest contribution will never be replacing clinicians. It will be empowering them to detect disease earlier, personalise care more precisely and help every individual make informed decisions about their health. #PreventiveHealthcare #HealthcareLeadership #FutureOfHealthcare #HealthTech #PublicHealth
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Dr. Sangita Reddy shared thisThe greatest inheritance is not wealth. It is purpose. Some recognitions invite celebration. Others invite reflection. Receiving the Economic Times Family Business of the Year – Mega Category Award on behalf of Apollo Hospitals alongside my sisters, was one of those moments. This recognition is meaningful not simply because it celebrates the scale of Apollo Hospitals, but because it acknowledges the impact that scale has had in shaping healthcare in India and improving millions of lives over the past four decades. Apollo was founded on a bold belief that India could create healthcare that matched the very best in the world. That belief challenged convention, inspired confidence and helped redefine what was possible for Indian healthcare. Institutions endure not because of buildings or balance sheets, but because of the values that shape their decisions every day. The values that have guided Apollo since its inception remain as relevant today as they were over forty years ago.Incremental is exponential. Real transformation is rarely achieved through one defining moment. It is built through thousands of small improvements, pursued consistently over time. That philosophy has shaped Apollo's journey of continuous innovation and excellence. Some of our most enduring principles were never written into a strategy document they became part of our culture. Modesty. Simplicity. People over process. They remind us that no matter how large we become or how rapidly healthcare evolves, our purpose must always remain centred on people. I have always been inspired by Sir Alex Ferguson's response when he was asked the secret of his success: "I observe. I learn." For me, those three words capture the essence of leadership. Organisations that continue to learn continue to lead. Every recognition also brings greater responsibility. Responsibility to keep raising the bar. Responsibility to keep innovating. Responsibility to make quality healthcare more accessible, more compassionate and more future-ready. As custodians of Apollo's next chapter, my sisters and I are privileged to build on a foundation created through courage, conviction and an unwavering commitment to serving society. My deepest appreciation goes to every Apollo doctor, nurse, caregiver, employee, partner and patient. Institutions are not built by families alone they are built by people united by a shared purpose. This recognition belongs to all of you. The true measure of any legacy is not what it leaves behind. It is what it inspires us to build next. #Leadership #Healthcare #ApolloHospitals #HealthcareLeadership #Legacy #Innovation #NationBuilding #ETAwards
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Dr. Sangita Reddy liked thisDr. Sangita Reddy liked thisIndia’s Healthcare Innovation Finds a Global Market The next frontier is not importing healthcare solutions, but developing affordable models that can scale across emerging economies. August 28, 2026 | New Delhi India’s healthcare innovation is increasingly moving in one direction: from adapting global solutions to creating models with global relevance. That shift carries economic significance. India combines scale, entrepreneurial capacity and digital public infrastructure with a healthcare system that has had to solve for affordability and access. The result is a growing ecosystem of solutions in telemedicine, preventive care, digital health and technology-enabled delivery. The opportunity extends well beyond India. Emerging economies face many of the same constraints: rising healthcare costs, uneven access, shortages of medical professionals and large populations living far from specialised care. Solutions designed around India’s realities can therefore have relevance across other developing markets. Digital platforms such as eSanjeevani, alongside technology-enabled initiatives such as Medicine from the Sky, illustrate how infrastructure, policy and private innovation can be combined to extend services beyond traditional healthcare facilities. But scaling is the real test. A successful pilot proves that something can work. A successful system proves that it can be affordable, trusted, accessible and replicated. This is where healthcare innovation becomes economic strategy. Lower-cost delivery can improve productivity. Earlier intervention can reduce the long-term burden of disease. Digital systems can expand access without requiring every service to be delivered through expensive physical infrastructure. For economies seeking faster, more inclusive development, these are not marginal benefits. They are part of the productivity equation. The emerging model is therefore not simply technology for healthcare. It is technology, institutions and public infrastructure working together to deliver better outcomes at scale. India’s next opportunity may be to turn that experience into an exportable model of development—particularly for economies facing similar demographic, geographic and fiscal pressures. The most valuable innovation may not be the one that works best in one country, but the one that can work in many. Source: Dr. Sangita Reddy; “Bharat Innovates for Social Good” roundtable, AVPN Global Conference, New Delhi. #BRICS #India #HealthcareInnovation #DigitalHealth #HealthEconomy #DigitalPublicInfrastructure #PreventiveHealthcare #EmergingMarkets #InclusiveGrowth #SouthSouthCooperation
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Dr. Sangita Reddy liked thisOne of the biggest barriers to preventive healthcare is something we rarely talk about:"TIME" People do not neglect or postpone their health because they don’t care. They postpone it because life gets in the way. A consultation gets pushed to next week. A health check waits for a less hectic day. A follow-up gets delayed because taking time off work simply isn’t possible. And sometimes, that delay matters. That is why I am particularly proud of what Apollo Hospitals Hospitals has launched today: Always Open. Always Here. We are extending planned healthcare access across all seven days, including Sunday-specialist consultations, diagnostics, preventive health checks, follow-ups and scheduled care. It may sound like a simple change. But I believe it represents something much bigger. Our Health of the Nation findings have shown us how much illness can remain hidden until it becomes a problem. We cannot build a healthier India by waiting for people to become patients.Prevention needs access. And access needs to fit into people’s lives. For me, this is what patient-first healthcare means. Not asking patients to fit around healthcare, but making healthcare fit around patients. It means moving from treating disease to protecting health. From waiting for symptoms to acting early. From responding to crisis to preventing it. I grew up watching my father, Dr. Prathap C. Reddy, challenge what people had accepted as the norm. His question was always simple: What can we do more for the patient? That question continues to guide us. Apollo has spent more than four decades pushing the boundaries of Indian healthcare not simply by bringing advanced treatment to India, but by continually asking how healthcare can become earlier, more accessible and more preventive. Today, we are taking on another barrier: TIME because your body doesn’t run on a six-day week so why should your healthcare? I am immensely proud of our Apollo family our doctors, nurses, technicians and every member of the team whose dedication makes this possible. Healthcare is ultimately a profession of service and sometimes, service means something very simple: Being there when someone finally has the time to take care of themselves. Because every health check done in time, every risk detected early and every disease prevented is more than a healthcare outcome. It is a life protected. A family protected. A future protected. And this is the kind of healthcare system I believe India deserves. One More Day for Health. Always Open. Always Here. #AlwaysOpenAlwaysHere #OneMoreDayForHealth #PatientFirst #PreventiveHealthcare #HealthOfTheNation #HealthcareInnovation #Healthcare #ApolloHospitals
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Dr. Sangita Reddy liked thisCapt. Sully Sullenberger has reminded us that courage is not only about what we do in a crisis. Sometimes, it is about what we are willing to say before the crisis arrives. In 2009, Captain Sully safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River after a bird strike disabled both engines, saving all 155 people on board. Today, he is facing a very different challenge. He has shared publicly that he has been diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease.What moved me was not only the diagnosis, but his decision to speak about it openly.Because this, too, is an act of service. For too many families, cognitive decline is still something discussed quietly, sometimes even in shame. By sharing his own journey, Sully is helping bring Alzheimer’s and brain health into the open and reminding families that they do not have to face it alone.His story also reinforces something I have believed throughout my journey in healthcare: prevention has to begin long before disease becomes visible. We are increasingly proactive about protecting our heart health, managing blood sugar and blood pressure, staying active and maintaining a healthy weight. We need to bring that same mindset to our brains. The health of our brain is deeply connected to the health of the rest of our body our heart, our metabolism, how we sleep, how we move and even how socially connected we remain. Not every case of Alzheimer’s can be prevented. But we should not wait for memory loss or cognitive decline to become visible before we begin thinking about brain health. We should not wait for the first signs of decline to start protecting the organ that defines so much of who we are. That, to me, is an important part of the future of preventive healthcare.Because longevity is not simply about adding years to life. It is about preserving the ability to live those years with health, independence, dignity and purpose. Captain Sully once showed us what courage looks like when 155 lives depended on him. Today, he is showing us another kind of couragespeaking about something deeply personal so that others may feel less alone. And perhaps his message should make all of us in healthcare ask a simple question: If we routinely talk about cardiovascular health, diabetes and cancer prevention, why shouldn't brain health be part of that conversation to? I believe it should. When do you think that conversation should begin? #BrainHealth #PreventiveHealthcare #HealthyLongevity #Alzheimers
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