: Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu laid the foundation stone for a new super-specialty hospital costing Rs.150 crore in the Siddhartha Medical College (SMC) premises here on Thursday.
Eighty per cent of the cost (Rs.120 crore) is to be borne by the Central government under Phase-III of the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY). The balance will be contributed by the State.
The hospital will be constructed by HSCC (India) Limited (formerly a Government of India enterprise called Hospital Services Consultancy Corporation Limited). It will be a G+5 building with 250 beds catering to cardiology, cardio-thoracic surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, paediatric surgery, emergency medicine, nephrology and urology. The State government has to provide the necessary equipment and meet the staff requirement.
The hospital will be a tertiary care hospital on the lines of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and will be under the control of the superintendent of the Government General Hospital in Vijayawada.
Ministers Kamineni Srinivas and Devineni Umamaheswara Rao, MP Kesineni Srinivas, MLA Gadde Rammohan, Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences Vice-Chancellor T. Ravi Raju, and Government General Hospital superintendent M. Jaganmohan were among those present.
