TTD EO AV Dharma Reddy said the doctors at the TTD-run Sri Padmavati Children’s Heart Centre had in just two years performed a record of 2030 heart surgeries including 8 successful heart transplants.
The EO said the Heart Care Centre for infants was launched after the bifurcation of united AP on the directions of Honourable CM of AP Sri YS Jaganmohan Reddy in October 2021 with just fifteen-member doctors and paramedical team under the leadership of Dr Srinath Reddys and achieved a 95% success rate in heart surgeries.
He said the role model children’s hospital has gained recognition as a popular and best paediatric Medicare centre where unique procedures were performed under Arogyasree and union government health schemes as well.
Hospital’s Director Dr Srinath Reddy said all critical operations for both newborns and aged infants were successfully done with an expert doctor’s team.
Even costly high-risk operations were freely performed with funds from the CM relief fund and SV Pranadana Trust. Among others Arteries transplants without open heart surgeries etc. are being done and soon kidney, brain and bone marrow operations will be undertaken with the completion of the 350-bed super specialty hospital with state-of-the-art medical equipment.
Dr Ganapathi Subramanyam of the hospital with an expert paramedical team and support from TTD, all poor patients were treated. He appealed to patients from Rayalaseema to make use of the advantage of the facility created by TTD.
