Anantapur. Anantapur: In view of the poor condition of the Super Speciality Hospital here, Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav has proposed to start a satellite institute of AIIMS to ensure quality medical assistance.
The hospital was planned as ambitiously as AIIMS, but the state bifurcation limited it to a super speciality hospital for the Rayalaseema region.
Sources said the health minister plans to strengthen medical facilities across the state through reforms at various levels. The Anantapur Super Speciality Hospital was made part of the State Partition Package to serve the Rayalaseema districts, while AIIMS was shifted to the coastal region.
The 200-bed super speciality hospital with four floors was designed to have eight speciality wings – cardiology, neurology, nephrology, medical gastroenterology and surgical gastroenterology as well as allied departments.
According to the proposals of a team of experts from the GGH here, 280 nursing and non-technical staff along with 179 posts of professors and assistant professors have been sought for the super speciality hospital.
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The hospital was upgraded to a government medical college under the third phase of the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY).
The hospital was set up to provide top-notch medical facilities to patients in the region so that they do not have to depend on corporate hospitals in Bengaluru city or elsewhere.
Considering the need for quality medical assistance for people of the Rayalaseema region, particularly Anantapur and Sathya Sai districts, the health minister has directed his department to prepare for starting a satellite centre to be attached with AIIMS, sources said.
