ANANTAPUR: Construction work on super specialty hospitals is going on at a brisk pace in Anantapur. Two super specialty hospitals at Vijayawada and Anantapur were sanctioned as part of improvising advanced medical facilities during post bifurcation programmes after the state division. Each hospital was sanctioned at an estimate of Rs 150 crore including Rs 30 crore share by the state government. The Central Government’s HSCC has been entrusted with the task of executing the project.
The hospital is designed to construct in a pattern to provide super specialty medical services such as bypasssurgeries and kidney transplant surgeries for the people of interior parts of Anantapur and other Rayalaseema districts. Suitable land wasallocated closer to the cancer hospital on JNTUA road about one km distance from collectorate in Anantapur. Construction activity was going on in full steam with a target to complete by 18 months duration from the date of beginning of construction.
Official sources said construction work was begun on August 13 after completion of all formalities including handing over of land and funds to the construction company. Official sources said work at Vijayawada is already in progress and the and hospital is likely to be ready by January, 2017. The Anantapur Super Specialty hospital, however, was delayed following selection of land and alleged poor involvement of local leaders to mount pressure on the state government.
A senior official told this correspondent that they have already intimated about future needs to provide total advanced medical facilities to the people. “We proposed the directorate of medical and health education authorities to allot necessary posts of specialists to offer quality of medical facilities like heart surgeries and kidney transplantations,” he said. Anantapur will have five storied building with eight specialties - cardiology, cardio thoracic, neurology, neuro surgery, paediatric surgery, emergency medicine, urology and nephrology, Urban MLA V. Prabhakar Chowdary observed.
If the super specialty services like heart surgeries and kidney transplants are performed at the super specialty hospital, poor patients will be benefited.? Presently, patients even for small ailments have to depend on Bengaluru hospitals.
