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Seven caller dialysis centres volition beryllium acceptable up successful Andhra Pradesh arsenic portion of the Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Programme, says Minister for Health Satya Kumar Yadav.
At present, determination are 232 dialysis centres successful Andhra Pradesh. The 7 caller centres volition travel up successful the Area Hospitals of S. Kota of Vizianagaram district, Bhimavaram of West Godavari district, Pileru of Chittoor district, and successful the Community Health Centres (CHCs) of Seethampeta of Parvathipuram-Manyam district, Venkatagiri of Nellore district, Addanki of Bapatla territory and Sunnipenta of Nandyal district.
In an authoritative merchandise connected Tuesday, the Health Minister said each centre, having aesculapian instrumentality costing astir ₹75 lakh, would supply attraction to 15 radical done 3 sessions successful a day.
The S. Kota and Seethampeta centres would beryllium functional soon, the Minister said, adding that these would beryllium tally nether the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model.
He said the A.P. State Medical Infrastructure Development Corporation had been instructed to invitation tenders to tally the remaining centres too.
The Minister said the centres, being acceptable up astatine the petition of nationalist representatives and people, would obviate the request for radical to question agelong distances to scope a infirmary for treatment.
Out of the 232 existing centres, 173 were being tally nether the PPP exemplary done the NTR Vaidya Seva Trust, the Minister said. The NDA authorities spent ₹164 crore for kidney patients successful the fiscal twelvemonth 2024-25, helium added.
