: The State government is planning to construct new buildings for 81 Primary Health Centres (PHCs) in the State at an estimated cost of Rs. 101 crore, according to Kamineni Srinivas, Minister for Medical and Health.
Inaugurating the ANM training centre on the campus of the Karapa PHC on the city outskirts that was constructed at a cost of Rs. 2.3 crore on Sunday, the Minister said that a sum of Rs. 1.2 crore would be allocated to each PHC building and efforts were on to renovate the government hospitals all over the State.Dr. Srinivas said that the government had already filled 1,900 vacancies of medical doctors in the government hospitals and steps had been taken to ensure that there was no shortage of medicines.
Dr. Srinivas said that an agency was appointed to oversee the use of equipment worth Rs.500 crore in the government hospitals and no user charges were collected from the patients for all the services including laboratory reports in the PHCs and government hospitals Kakinada rural MLA Pilli Anantalakshmi and DMHO N. Uma Sundari were present.
