Mines Minister launches NTR Health Services

(Vizianagaram): Minister for Mines and Geology RVSK Ranga Rao launched NTR Health Services at the Community Health Centre (CHC) in Bobbili town on Wednesday. Till now, such services were not available at Primary Health Centres acrpss the state. At present, such services are available at the district general hospitals, maternity hospitals, private hospitals and teaching hospitals only but now, the government has extended the facility to six CHCs in the state recently and as a part of it, now Ranga Rao launched this facility in Bobbili CHC.

Later, speaking to the media, the Minister said that he would upgrade this hospital to a 50-bedded hospital and provide some other services like paediatricians, general surgeons, burns ward, orthopaedics and nephrology. Now, the patients of this area need not move to Vizianagaram for better treatment. Minister Ranga Rao said that the government has spent around Rs 20 crore for upgrading the medical infrastructure in the Bobbili area.