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Blue Star to expand its Commercial Refrigeration footprint for building a robust healthcare infrastructure including vaccine cold chain in India

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Air conditioning and commercial refrigeration major, Blue Star Limited, with a rich pedigree of 77 years, has been offering a wide spectrum of commercial refrigeration products and cold chain equipment catering to various segments such as Pharmaceutical and Healthcare,Agriculture, Dairy, Ice-cream, Processed Foods, Hotels, Restaurants, Fast Food Chains, Quick Service Restaurants, and Retail Outlets, besides several institutional clients. B Thiagarajan, Managing Director, Blue Star Limited The Company’s commercial refrigeration products and solutions are integral to, and extensively used in,processes at most of the eminent players in the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare sectors. Blue Star has a market share of around 60 to 70% in the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare segments in its addressed product categories such as modular cold rooms, medical freezers, ultra-low temperature freezers, pharma refrigerators, and blood bank refrigerators. Post COVID, uptick in demand   Post COVID, B...

Apollo Cancer Centres Introduces the Tubeless Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) to treat Lung Cancer for the First Time in India

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Chennai: Apollo Cancer Centres a part of the Apollo Hospitals Group has always been first in incorporate new treatment technologies in Cancer Care. In yet another feat, specialists at Apollo Cancer Centre in Theynampet introduced a new technique the Tubeless VATS to successfully treat a 15 year-old patient from Bangladesh. This minimally invasive procedure has been performed for the first time in India. VideoЁЯСЗЁЯСЗ In October 2019, the patient, Mr. MD Nahid Hasan, was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma of left femur (Left thigh bone) in Bangladesh. It is a very rare form of cancerous tumor that grows in bones or the soft tissue around bones, such as cartilage or the nerves. It typically affects people from 10 to 20 years of age. Nahid was treated in a hospital in Bangladesh where he underwent several chemotherapy sessions for this tumor. He also had a fracture of the same left lower limb in February 2020 and it was stabilised. (L to R)  Ms. Preetha Reddy, Vice Chairperson Apollo Hospi...