Stating that the Aarogyasri health scheme introduced by the previous Congress regime had favoured private hospitals and badly hit the teaching government hospitals, the Andhra Pradesh government has drawn up a plan to give the latter a new lease of life.
In what is perhaps for the first time in state-run hospitals of AP, a complicated neurosurgery (awake craniotomy) was performed at the King George Hospital (KGH) on a 30-year-old patient suffering from brain cancer.
As part of a pilot project, within six months, four government hospitals in the district, including KGH, and three others in the Agency areas are to be fully computerised with funds from the central government.
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