Trauma care, emergency wing inaugurated at Chittoor District Hospital

A state-of-the-art trauma attraction centre and a modernised exigency helping were inaugurated astatine the District Headquarters Hospital present connected Monday (March 9, 2026), aiming to fortify exigency aesculapian services and supply escaped corporate-level attraction to the poor.

Minister for Transport Mandipalli Ramprasad Reddy inaugurated the duplicate facilities. Chittoor MP Daggumalla Prasada Rao, Chittoor MLA Gurajala Jagan Mohan, Puthalapattu MLA Kalikiri Murali Mohan, and District Collector Sumit Kumar were besides present.

Mr. Ramprasad Reddy said that the task has been implemented with the enactment of Apollo Hospitals and Apollo University, aiming to bring precocious aesculapian infrastructure to the authorities hospital. He said the inaugural reflects the imaginativeness of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu to marque prime healthcare accessible to economically weaker sections.

He said that astir ₹2.5 crore had been spent to equip the infirmary with modern facilities comparable to those of firm hospitals, ensuring that mediocre patients person precocious attraction without a fiscal burden. In captious cases, arrangements are besides being made to notation patients to firm hospitals successful Chennai and Bengaluru erstwhile required.

Collector Sumit Kumar said that the trauma attraction centre volition play a important relation successful providing contiguous attraction to mishap victims and different exigency patients successful the region. The upgraded exigency section has been designed with a triage system, categorising patients into red, yellow, and greenish zones for faster aesculapian response.

The Collector said that the installation has been equipped with 60 beds for exigency attraction with precocious ventilators, hemodynamic monitoring systems, integer X-ray facilities, and point-of-care investigating capabilities. A dedicated operating theatre has besides been established wrong the exigency artifact to alteration contiguous surgical involution erstwhile necessary, helium added.