New eye hospital( Sankara Nethralaya ) to come up at Sricity, Andra Pradesh

 

New eye hospital to come up at Sricity, Andra Pradesh

Sri City signs MoU with Sankara Nethralaya for the hospital

Sullurpet: Sri City, South India’s largest integrated business city, on Saturday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Medical Research Foundation (Sankara Nethralaya) to establish an eye care hospital and research facility in the Sri City.

Dr Sengamedu Srinivasa Badrinath, with a group of philanthropists, founded the Sankara Nethralaya, a charitable not-for-profit eye hospital on the advice of Sri Jayendra Saraswati in the year 1978. The main objective of the hospital is to provide affordable and world class eye care facilities to the people. Sri City Sankara Nethralaya, as the hospital would be called, will commence its services within the next three months with a 20 bed hospital and an operation theatre.

It would be developed gradually into a full-fledged specialty eye care hospital, spread over 10 acres within the next three years. Dr SS Badrinath, Chairman Emeritus, Sankara Nethralaya said, “We are happy to be associated with Sri City. We intend to set up the eye care hospital and ensure quality and affordable eye care services to the poor and needy. As the full-fledged eye care hospital is expected to be completed in a period of 3 years, any complicated surgeries that require post-surgery backup can be offered by Sankara Nethralaya Chennai till then.”

With the launch of the eye care hospital in Sri City, the local people who seek treatment elsewhere will not be required to travel till Chennai and can opt for quality care near their doorstep. Furthermore, quick post-surgery treatment and minimal travelling will ensure the local people who seek treatment to reduce the risk of infections.

Ravindra Sannareddy, MD, Sri City, Dr S Bhaskaran, Chairman, Sankara Nethralaya and R Rajagopal, Board Member, Sankara Nethralaya participated in the event.

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