Heart ops soon at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences

Ongole: Health and Medical Education Minister Kamineni Srinivas ordered the management of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) to reimburse the charges of scanning to the patients, when they are forced to go to private scan centres due to the repairs to in house CT scan machine. 

He also announced that they are going to introduce heart surgeries in RIMS very soon. The Minister who was on a tour to Prakasam district on Tuesday, visited the RIMS at Ongole and conducted a review meeting with the management committee and hospital staff. 

Local MLA Damacharla Janardhan, MLC Karanam Balaram, committee chairman Kamepally Seetharamaiah, Director Mastan Vali and others also participated in the meeting. The Minister said that they are introducing the cardiology department very soon in the hospital.

He said that STAR Hospital chairman Mannem Gopichand agreed to conduct heart surgeries at RIMS soon. He ordered the officials to repair the CT scan and MRI equipment immediately with the HDS funds, if required. In the mean time, he ordered them to reimburse the patients who go to outside scanning centres for scanning and other reports. 

Later, Srinivas inaugurated the community health centre at Ulavapadu, constructed at a cost of Rs 4.33 crore. He announced that orthopedic doctors will be made available in hospitals along highways for the benefit of people involved in accidents and promised to open trauma centres after financial clearance is received. 

He said that about 600 hospitals in the State were offering NTR Vaidyaseva covering 1,044 diseases. The Minister later inaugurated 30-bed government hospital complex built at a cost of Rs 3.28 crore at Yerragondapalem and said that the government has arranged 19 dialysis centres in the state including majority of them at Chirala, Markapur, Ongole, Kanigiri and Kandukur.