The TTD Executive Officer Sri Anil Kumar Singhal has instructed officials to expedite the completion the construction of the new building of the Sri Padmavathi Children’s Hospital, which is under construction near Alipiri.
On Thursday, the TTD EO inspected the Sri Padmavathi Children’s Heart Centre and the new hospital building under construction along with the doctors and the engineering officials.
During the inspection, the EO directed the engineering wing to make advance arrangements for medical equipment, furniture, electrical works and other essential infrastructure so that all facilities are ready by the time the building is completed.
The EO reviewed the usage plan of each floor in the G+6 hospital building meant for medical services and its administration.
The Doctors informed him that the 6th floor will be used entirely for operation theatres, while the 7th floor will be exclusively used as a helipad.
The EO suggested that images of deities be installed on hospital walls to instill devotion and confidence among patients and their attendants, and emphasized maintaining cleanliness in and around the hospital premises.
He instructed the officials concerned to complete the construction at the earliest and take steps to inaugurate the new hospital as soon as possible.
Earlier, the TTD EO inspected the Sri Padmavathi Children’s Heart Centre and interacted with staff regarding services being provided to patients through the NTR Vaidya Seva, SV Pranadana Trust schemes and offered them several suggestions with respect to online registration and related aspects.
He first inspected the pharmacy store and later interacted with children who had undergone cardiac surgeries and their attendants from Anantapur, Proddatur, Chittoor, Kakinada, Tenali, Rayachoti, Kurnool and other places and enquired about the quality of medical services, availability of free treatment and free medicines.
The attendants expressed immense satisfaction over the services being provided in the hospital.
The Hospital Director Dr N. Srinath Reddy informed the EO that a heart transplant surgery was successfully performed on Bharat from Kurnool. He stated that so far 4,950 cardiac surgeries and 23 heart transplant procedures have been conducted at the hospital.
Subsequently, the EO inspected the advanced Cath Lab machine in ICU-1 used for correcting heart defects, the isolation ward in ICU-2, ICU-3 and the general wards, and interacted with patients and their attendants.
Doctors explained that a three-month-old infant Kishore from Kadapa, who had a condition where oxygenated and deoxygenated blood were mixing, was successfully treated through surgery to correct the blood flow.
TTD CE Sri Satyanarayana, SEs Sri Venkateswarlu, Sri Manoharam, RMO of the Children’s Heart Hospital Dr. Bharat, doctors and other engineering officials participated in the programme.
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