TTD Joint EO reviews work at children’s super specialty hospital
The Hindu
TIRUPATI
TTD’s Joint Executive Officer (Health and Education) Sada Bhargavi on Tuesday inspected the ongoing construction work at Sri Padmavati Children’s Super Specialty Hospital, coming up on a campus belonging to the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) at Alipiri.
While the engineering department had been executing the work on a full swing, the recent thundershowers followed by the cyclone alert has disrupted it.
Ms. Bhargavi instructed Chief Engineer Nageswara Rao and his team to complete the ground level works by the end of this month. She also suggested using additional deployment of manpower, if need be, to compensate the delay caused by the cyclone.
The TTD, which is currently running a children’s heart centre to deal with cardiac ailments in paediatric cases, is expanding the scope of its operations by including many other specialisations, starting with bone marrow transplant surgery. The hospital is expected to be operational by the end of next year.
Earlier, Ms. Bhargavi reviewed the progress of production and sale of Panchagavya products by the TTD and suggested to the Deputy Executive Officer (General) Gunabhushan Reddy and Public Relations Officer T. Ravi to provide adequate publicity for the products, especially in the form of promos on its Sri Venkateswara Bhakti Channel (SVBC).
While residents are worried over deaths due to diarrhoea in Vijayawada, officials still grapple to find the root cause. Contaminated drinking water supplied by VMC officials is the reason, insist people in the affected areas, but officials insist that efforts are on to identify the disease and that those with symptoms other than diarrhoea too are visiting the health camps.