AP government filled 50,000 vacancies in healthcare in 3 years: Minister

Kakinada: BC welfare minister Ch. Srinivasa Venu Gopalakrishna said that the government had filled 50,000 vacancies including the posts of doctors, para-medical personnel, ANMs and others in the medical and health department during the past three years to strengthen the healthcare sector in the state.

The minister inaugurated a blood bank at the area hospital in Ramachandrapuram on Tuesday. He said the government introduced the ‘family doctor’ system with specialist doctors to provide healthcare in rural and remote areas.

He said previously, the people of the area used to go to Kakinada to get blood. But now, the blood bank would be useful to patients and the people of Ramachandrapuram constituency and Anaparti, Mandapeta as well. The proposals for setting up a dialysis centre and an oxygen plant at the hospital have been sent to the government, he said.

Gopalakrishna inaugurated the village secretariat building and Rythu Bharosa centre at Vella village, constructed at a cost of Rs 1.68 crores. He said the government had sanctioned Rs 53 crores for welfare and development schemes to the people of the village.