Government General Hospital Anantapur expansion with Rs 600 crore on anvil
ANANTAPUR: The Government General Hospital (GGH) here will soon undertake expansion works to increase the number of its beds along with the building of a separate maternal and child health (MCH) block at an estimated cost of Rs. 600 crore.
As the GGH remained in a neglected state for decades, no expansion of departments was done to also matchingly increase seats in UG and PG medicine seats at the medical college. Inspection teams gave adverse reports about the hospital facilities every year.
The hospital will be upgraded from 560 beds to 1200 beds with separate ‘mother and children’ block and administrative buildings on 8.32 acres of land allotted recently by the government.
The lands and buildings of the R&B and Irrigation department located in front of the GGH main gate will be used for the expansion. The maternal and child health block will have a 250-bed capacity to meet the needs of the big district.
The initiative by the urban MLA Ananta Venkatrami Reddy and the district administration led to the finding of a solution to the technical problem after allotment of lands of other departments via a recent GO. With the increase in the beds to 1200 capacity, the hospital would get more posts of doctors, nurses and non-technical staff, he said, and added that medicine seats in under-graduation and post-graduation will be increased as part of the expansion.
Urban MLA Ananta Venkatrami Reddy said chief minister Jaganmohan Reddy has also agreed for a further extension of the other wings including the anaesthesia at the GGH, keeping in view this is a backward district with poor medical facilities. The super specialty hospital at Anantapur will also have specialists for all wings.
The hospital works will be started soon after evacuation of offices by the R&B and irrigation departments to alternative buildings in Anantapur.
