The Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS), the TTD-run super specialty hospital, has nicely timed its entry into the silver jubilee year as President Ram Nath Kovind, who is visiting the temple city on a two-day pilgrimage starting Friday, is scheduled to inaugurate the celebrations, apart from dedicating to the nation the 650-bedded hospital complex attached to the Sri Padmavathi Medical College for Women (SPMCW), also a unit of SVIMS.
SPMCW is the country's second medical college in the public sector exclusively run for women, after the Lady Hardinge Medical College in New Delhi. The hospital will initially have 400 beds, with an expansion programme for 250 more beds on hand, to be completed in a year.
Seven blocks
The mammoth seven-storey hospital (including cellar) is divided into seven blocks. Radiology, OBG, labour room, orthopaedics OPD and general surgery, ANC ward, OPD for OBG and paediatrics, labs, operation theatre complex etc. are in Block A and B. The adjacent wing housing C and D blocks will have ENT, anaesthesia, ophthalmology, dentistry, HIV/ICTC, general surgery, central research lab and a blood bank. The E and F blocks house OPD for psychiatry, wards of OBG and paediatrics, hospital stores, post-operative ward, ICU etc.
The college building was inaugurated by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu last year.