Archive · 3 Sep 2026
SVIMS to Soon Open Eight-Bed PICU in Tirupati
SVIMS is preparing to open a special intensive-care unit for very sick children.
The unit will have eight beds and will be in Tirupati.
The State Bank of India gave ₹52 lakh to help establish it.
Doctors and nurses will use monitors to watch children’s heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen levels and breathing.
Machines will help children who have serious trouble breathing.
The unit will also have equipment for heart problems and other emergencies.
Children with serious infections, poisoning or complications after surgery can be treated there.
Staff will receive regular training to care for critically ill children.
The unit is meant to provide quick treatment and reduce risky transfers to distant hospitals.
Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences will soon open an eight-bed Paediatric Intensive Care Unit in Tirupati.
State Bank of India provided ₹52 lakh to establish the facility at Sri Padmavathi Medical College for Women.
The PICU will provide continuous monitoring, respiratory support, emergency medicines and resuscitation for critically ill children.
It will treat conditions including severe infections, respiratory failure, sepsis, neurological emergencies, poisoning, cardiac emergencies and postoperative complications.
Doctors and nurses will receive ongoing training, with support from Paediatrics, Emergency Medicine, Anaesthesia, Radiology, Laboratory Medicine and Blood Bank departments.
- Who
- Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, with financial support from the State Bank of India, is establishing the unit. The facility was announced by SVIMS Director and Vice Chancellor Dr G. Jagadish, also identified as Dr Gudaru Jagadeesh in one report.
- What
- An eight-bed Paediatric Intensive Care Unit will provide specialised monitoring, intensive care, respiratory support, emergency medicines and resuscitation for critically ill children.
- When
- The unit is expected to begin providing care shortly.
- Where
- At SVIMS’s Sri Padmavathi Medical College for Women in Tirupati.
- Why
- To provide timely, specialised treatment for critically ill children, reduce treatment delays and avoid transfers of unstable patients to distant hospitals.
- Facility
- Eight-bed Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
- Location
- Sri Padmavathi Medical College for Women, Tirupati
- Financial support
- ₹52 lakh from the State Bank of India
- Equipment
- Four multiparameter monitors, a paediatric ventilator, High-Flow Nasal Cannula, defibrillator, ECG machine and crash cart
- Care provided
- Continuous monitoring, respiratory support, emergency medicines, ventilatory assistance and resuscitation
- Conditions treated
- Severe infections, respiratory failure, sepsis and septic shock, neurological emergencies, poisoning, cardiac emergencies and postoperative complications
- Training and support
- Training in paediatric resuscitation, ventilator management, sepsis and shock, with support from several SVIMS departments and the Blood Bank
