Hyderabad, January 18: A long pending proposal for setting up a super-speciality hospital between Vijayawada and Guntur, was cleared on Monday by chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy.
The proposal is for setting up an academic campus of NTR Health University at Mangalagiri in Guntur district.
The government will set up the academic campus along with a super-speciality hospital that will act as an academic research and advanced super-specialty centre offering PG medical courses.
The academic campus will be established in the sprawling 75-acre land belonging to the TB sanatorium at Mangalagiri.
The project will be funded by the University Grants Commission, the Department of Science and Technology and other Central government agencies.
The officials have been asked to expedite the works in this regard on priority basis.
“Though the academic campus will be established at Mangalagiri, the administrative office will continue to be located in Vijayawada,” PV Ramesh, Principal Secretary (Health) said.
The chief minister directed the officials for reconstituting the high-power committee to study the standards in medical education and infrastructure, and submit a report to the state government within four weeks.
The high-power committee which is currently non-functional due to lack of members, will also examine the feasibility for implementing the Hyderabad Declaration unveiled at the recently concluded meeting of the health ministers. Further, the government has sanctioned 76 posts in addition to the existing staff at the health university.
The government will soon take up transfers of medical teaching staff apart from promotions of 376 civil assistants to assistant professors.
To attract super-specialist doctors to work in rural areas, the government is planning to come up with a comprehensive policy with attractive incentives.
The state government will spend about Rs 55 crore for strengthening the Rajiv Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) and other major government teaching hospitals.
Another Rs 25 crore will be spent for developing laboratories and excellency centres across the state to provide better emergency medical facilities.
–Agencies