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Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) Trust Board Chairman B.R. Naidu inaugurated a high-end diagnostic strategy and state-of-the-art aesculapian instrumentality worthy ₹55 crore astatine the Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS) successful Tirupati connected Thursday (May 7, 2026), arsenic portion of the ₹100 crore modernisation works.
The instrumentality specified arsenic PET CT Scanner, Gamma camera, and High vigor precocious linear accelerator were funded done the TTD’s Balaji Arogya Varaprasadini scheme.
Mr. Naidu said the PET CT scanner worthy ₹18 crore would assistance diagnose cancer, encephalon and cardiac related issues with precision. The ₹5 crore Gamma camera would assistance representation cancer, corruption successful the interior organs, too the functioning of heart, brain, thyroid, bones and kidneys. Similarly, the ₹29 crore linear accelerator would assistance tackle crab tumours with accrued accuracy.
He recalled Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu’s resoluteness to marque SVIMS the cardinal hub of aesculapian excellence for the full Rayalaseema region.
SVIMS Director Dr. R.V. Kumar recalled that the hospital, the brainchild of the precocious N.T. Rama Rao, has witnessed tremendous improvement with a whopping ₹450 crore concern by the TTD implicit the past 30 years since its inception.
While the full-fledged crab artifact would beryllium thrown unfastened successful the adjacent 2 months, high-end robotic surgery, simulators and virtual dissection to fto the aesculapian students larn the precocious mode would beryllium successful spot soon, Dr. Kumar added.
He besides pointed retired that the SVIMS field was witnessing infrastructural boost with a whopping concern enactment of ₹600 crore, attributed it to the TTD’s spot committee led by Mr. B.R. Naidu.
TTD spot committee members Sadasiva Rao, Panabaka Lakshmi, Janaki Devi, G. Bhanuprakash Reddy, TUDA president C. Divakar Reddy, MLA Arani Srinivasulu, erstwhile Deputy Mayor R.C. Munikrishna were besides present.
