Archive · 13 Sep 2026
Critical Care Centres Inaugurated Across Three Andhra Pradesh Districts
Three government hospitals in Andhra Pradesh have opened new centres for treating very sick patients.
They are in Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Srikakulam.
The centres were created under the Prime Minister’s Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission.
They will provide services such as intensive care, dialysis and emergency treatment.
The Anakapalli centre can help accident victims and people with heart emergencies during the important first hour of treatment.
The Visakhapatnam centre will have ICU beds, ventilators and isolation wards.
The Srikakulam centre will also provide maternal and child care, operation theatres and cardiac care.
Officials said these facilities will reduce the need to send patients to other hospitals and improve access for poorer families.
Critical Care Centres were inaugurated in Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Srikakulam under PM-ABHIM.
Anakapalli’s centre at NTR Hospital cost Rs 22.09 crore and will receive equipment worth Rs 7.50 crore.
A 50-bed Critical Care Block opened at Visakhapatnam’s King George Hospital at a cost of Rs 23.75 crore.
Srikakulam’s Government General Hospital received a 50-bed block costing Rs 23.75 crore, with equipment worth Rs 4.50 crore to be supplied under an IOCL MoU.
The facilities are intended to provide intensive and emergency care locally, reducing patient transfers and helping poorer and middle-class patients.
- Who
- Union Health Minister JP Nadda, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav and other officials inaugurated the facilities virtually.
- What
- Critical Care Centres, including two 50-bed Critical Care Blocks, were inaugurated under the Prime Minister’s Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission.
- When
- Saturday.
- Where
- NTR Hospital in Anakapalli, King George Hospital in Visakhapatnam and Government General Hospital in Srikakulam.
- Why
- To strengthen government-hospital infrastructure, provide timely critical care locally, reduce patient transfers and ease the burden on poorer and middle-class patients.
- Mission
- Prime Minister’s Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission (PM-ABHIM)
- Districts
- Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Srikakulam
- Anakapalli project
- Rs 22.09 crore at NTR Hospital
- Anakapalli equipment
- Equipment worth Rs 7.50 crore is to be provided
- Visakhapatnam project
- A 50-bed block at King George Hospital costing Rs 23.75 crore
- Srikakulam project
- A 50-bed block at Government General Hospital costing Rs 23.75 crore
- Srikakulam equipment
- An MoU with IOCL will supply equipment worth Rs 4.50 crore