Andhra Pradesh - Guntur   

GMC moves to provide quality health services

Staff Reporter

GUNTUR: The Guntur Municipal Corporation (GMC) will tie up with a private hospital in the city to provide quality health services to poor women who are members of self-help groups (SHGs) and their family members under the Andhra Pradesh Urban Services for the Poor programme.

Mayor Kanna Nagaraju announced a health scheme to all SHG women members in the city.

Sai Bhaskar Hospitals in Arundelpet on Friday said that it would provide medical consultancy services to six members of a family in five specialties.

Hospital managing director B. Narendra Reddy said at a press conference that it was ready to tie-up with the GMC to provide subsidised health services to 100 SGH groups.On an average, there are six members in each group. All the 600 members would be given identity cards with photographs of their family members too. They would be screened by specialist doctors in orthopaedics, cardiology, gynaecology, general medicine and ENT whenever they approached the hospital. Final project report would be submitted to the GMC for implementation, he said.

The hospital would offer 25 per cent concession in hospitalisation and investigations to all patients from these groups, he added.

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