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SVIMS to offer AI-based medical services to needy soon: TTD chairman
Tirupati: Sri Venkateswara institute of medical sciences (SVIMS), a multi-specialty hospital established by the Tirupati trust, will soon offer Artificial Intelligence-based medical services and perform a higher share of surgeries through robotic arms, Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (
TTD
) chairman BR Naidu announced.
Taking part as chief guest at the 13th Convocation of the TTD-run medical university held in Tirupati on Wednesday, Naidu recalled the institute's meteoric rise right from its conception by the then chief minister Late NT Rama Rao in 1993 to getting on the verge of becoming an Institute of National Importance (INI).
The institute has been reaching out to the poor and needy patients of the backward Rayalaseema region for the last three decades, offering services to 1500 out patients and 750 in patients everyday.
The college produces 175 female doctors every year in the super specialties of cardiology, cardiac surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, nephrology, urology and oncology.
"SVIMS is only the second in the public sector in the entire country to run an all-women medical college, which is a matter of pride", TTD chief added.
TTD EO J Shyamala Rao congratulated the 501 young doctors graduating from the institute and hailed SVIMS for becoming the first public sector medical institute in India to perform triple transplantation surgery of heart, liver and kidney.
SVIMS Director and vice-chancellor Dr RV Kumar read out the annual report and thanked the TTD trust board for taking up developmental works at the hospital.
