Every Segment Should Have 100-Bed Hospital: Naidu

Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Friday instructed the Medical and Health officials to initiate an action plan to ensure that every Assembly segment in the State should have 100 to 300-bedded multi-speciality hospitals. In the 175 segments, already 70 hospitals exist with a capacity of 100-beds or more and immediate steps should be initiated to construct multi-specialty hospitals in the remaining 105 constituencies, the Chief Minister said.

He also made a suggestion that these hospitals can be built and managed on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) system and a policy can be formulated on the lines of industry to provide subsidy to those organisations that come forward.

Presiding over a review meeting at the State Secretariat on Medical and Health, the Chief Minister felt that the health services should be further expanded in the State.