Minister for Health N. Md. Farooq on Saturday laid the foundation stone for new buildings and expansion of existing ones on the premises of the Anantapur Government Medical College, under a centrally-sponsored scheme to enhance the number of MBBS seats in the college from the existing 100 to 150.
The proposed 11,972 sq. mtr. building will have additional space for men’s and women’s hostels, an additional hospital block, classrooms and a library. The Minister, responding to the demand of the local MLA Vaikuntham Prabhakar Choudhary, said implementation of G.O. 124 would also be studied.
Sanction of additional teaching staff would also help get additional Post-Graduate seats in the college by 2020, which currently has 16 seats, said the Health Minister.
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Work on a super-specialty hospital at a cost of ₹120 crore would also begin soon, he said. Mr. Farooq, highlighting the special attention being paid by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, said Kurnool hospital will now have a cancer and maternity block.
Government Chief Whip Palle Raghunatha Reddy congratulated Medical College Principal K.S.S. Venkateswara Rao and Superintendent A. Jagannath for the rare surgeries and other procedures being done at GGH in the last couple of years, and added that sanitation at GGH was among the best in the State.