Amaravati: With the onset of COVID-19 final yr, the delicate well being care system and well being infrastructure was uncovered everywhere in the nation given the magnitude of sufferers’ vis a vis hospitals and the healthcare system. Now each state is having a tough look on this facet. Many states are going for course correction.
In Andhra Pradesh, to present superior Medi-Care and higher healthcare companies, CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy might be laying the muse stone for the institution of 14 new medical colleges across the state right here on Monday.
Ramping up medical infrastructure within the state, the federal government additionally proposed to add 5 new medical colleges to the prevailing 11 which had been already introduced. The development work has already began in two medical colleges at Paderu (Visakhapatnam district) and Pulivendula (Kadapa district). Â
With the institution of new colleges, the variety of medical seats goes to enhance considerably, and extra seats might be obtainable for poor college students by filling 70 per cent in convenor quota and 30 per cent in fee quota.
The 16 new medical colleges are being established at Paderu, Vizianagaram, Anakapalli, Rajahmundry, Palakollu, Amalapuram, Eluru, Machilipatnam, Bapatla, Markapuram, Piduguralla, Madanapalli, Pulivendula, Penukonda, Adoni and Nandyal.Â
The state authorities has issued orders for the development of multi-speciality hospitals in tribal areas at Seethampeta, Parvathipuram, Rampachodavaram, Buttayigudem and Dornala, the place an extent of 885 acres of land was procured for medical colleges and multi-speciality hospitals.
With regard to medical schooling, Vizianagaram, Anakapalli, Rajahmundry, Eluru, Machilipatnam medical colleges might be having 150 seats every whereas the remaining colleges may have 100 admissions every taking the overall variety of seats to 2000 roughly.Â
Also, works are below progress for Paderu, Piduguralla, Pulivendula medical colleges. Construction and tenders are being evaluated for Vizianagaram, Anakapalli, Â Â Amalapuram, Rajahmundry, Eluru, Palakollu, Bapatla, Markapuram, Madanapalli, Penukonda, Â Nandyal and Adoni.
All these medical colleges and instructing hospitals might be providing emergency, casualty and diagnostic companies, with superior Intensive Care Units ( ICUs ), and 10 states of artwork Modular Operation Theatres. The focus of the federal government is to develop a mannequin welfare state with entry to progressive and superior expertise.
Besides, “Nadu Nedu” initiative is one such programme taken up by the State authorities to prioritise the modernisation of the well being sector, which goals to revamp the prevailing well being infrastructure and put in place a sturdy decentralized tertiary public healthcare infrastructure and amenities to present accessible and inexpensive tertiary healthcare to the individuals of Andhra Pradesh.
Under this initiative, all the prevailing well being amenities might be upgraded as per IPHS Standards for Sub-centers, PHCs, CHCs, AHs and NMC norms for Teaching Hospitals.
