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The 1966 batch of Andhra Medical College (AMC) and the alumni relation Andhra Medical College Alumni of North America (AMCANA) person donated six precocious Maquet ventilators to the paediatric intensive attraction portion (PICU) astatine King George Hospital (KGH), present connected Wednesday (February 11).
The donation is valued astatine astir ₹48 lakh. The instrumentality was handed implicit by alumni members Nagula Sitaramaiah and G. Guruprasad. These modern ventilators travel equipped with specialised humidifier systems designed to supply superior respiratory enactment for infants and children successful captious condition. This summation volition importantly amended the prime of attraction and trim the severity of respiratory illnesses among young patients, they added.
Visakhapatnam District Collector M.N. Harendhira Prasad formally inaugurated the machines and handed them implicit to the paediatric department.
B.S. Chakravarthy, caput of the paediatrics department, said that these ventilators would not lone fortify captious attraction services but besides service arsenic an fantabulous grooming instrumentality for aesculapian students to larn astir precocious life-support technology.
AMC erstwhile students and teaching professionals, including T. Ravi Raju, P.V. Sudhakar, T. Radha, Pedaveeraju and V.V.G. Mohan attended the event, according to I. Vani, KGH superintendent.
