Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy will officially begin construction on the ₹ 400 crore Penukonda Government Medical College, which will be built on 60 acres on Penukonda-Roddam Road.
This will be part of the overall work to begin in 14 locations across the state, said Minister of Roads and Buildings Malagundla Sankaranarayana, adding that the state government is making the public health sector a top priority.
Mr Sankaranarayana announced this after visiting the hospital grounds with Collector Gandham Chandrudu, Sub-Collector T. Nishanthi and Joint Collector A. Siri on Friday, and said efforts were being made to increase the number of doctors in the state .
Meanwhile, under the Nadu Nedu program, the government has approved the expansion of the Government General Hospital in Anantapur, which will expand from the current 560 beds to 1,200 beds after the project is completed, the minister said.
The state government allowed pre-owned 8.32 acres of land owned by the Department of Roads and Buildings where its office is now, Sankaranarayana said. This will facilitate the start of work on the construction of the mother-and-child department block with an investment of 300 billion under the Nadu-Nedu program, he said.