Minister Peddireddi inaugurates 50-bed Regional Hospital at Punganur in Chittoor district
The Hindu
Minister P. Ramachandra Reddy inaugurated Regional Hospital buildings at Punganur. CM Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy focused on education & health sectors. Rajampeta MP Mithun Reddy donated ₹1 crore for hospital. Jagan govt set up 100 RO plants in Punganur & Deputy CM K. Narayanaswamy attended programe.
Minister for Energy and Forests P. Ramachandra Reddy inaugurated the Regional Hospital buildings at Punganur on Wednesday. The existing community health centre was upgraded to a regional hospital by adding new infrastructure worth ₹6 crore to the facility.
Speaking on this occasion, the Minister said that Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy had focused prominently on the education and health sectors. “The highlight of the reforms brought in the education sector is the introduction of English medium of instruction, which helped the students face the tough competition at the national and international levels,” he said.
“No Chief Minister in the country has built 16 medical colleges at one go. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the YSRCP government stood at the forefront in serving the people during the lockdown,” Mr. Ramachandra Reddy said.
He added that Rajampeta MP Mithun Reddy had contributed an oxygen plant worth ₹1 crore for the Punganur hospital.
The Minister said that the Punganur region was earlier under a single family for three decades but without any development, taking a dig at TDP leader N. Amarnath Reddy.
“The construction of two important reservoirs in the western mandals was also stopped by the previous Chandrababu Naidu government,” Mr. Ramachandra Reddy said.
The Jagan Mohan Reddy government had set up more than 100 RO plants in the Punganur Assembly constituency to solve the drinking water crisis for the rural people here, the Minister added.