SPCHC Boon to Many Children - TTD Chairman

Sri Padmavathi Children’s Heart Centre(SPCHC), built at a cost of Rs.25cr which was inaugurated on 11 October in 2021 by the Honourable CM of AP Sri YS Jaganmohan Reddy in Tirupati is proving to be a boon to many children who are suffering from heart ailments, said TTD Trust Board Chairman Sri YV Subba Reddy.

The TTD Trust Board Chief during the press meet held at the hospital premises on Wednesday said that the hospital is presently equipped with 75 beds including ICU Beds, 3 modular Operation Theatres and with advanced Cath Lab.

Till date since its inception, around 1105 Surgeries have been completed in 15 months’ span to months old infants to teens providing them a new lease of life with a 95% success rate. The first ever Heart Transplant Surgery was also successfully performed on 20 January this year successfully with a team of doctors lead by Dr. N.Srinath Reddy (Senior Paediatric Cardiologist). Dr.K.Ganapathy Subramaniam (Senior Paediatric C.T. Surgeon), Dr.A.Madhu Yadav, (Paediatric Intensive Anesthetist), Dr Abhinav, Dr Rambabu (Jeevandaan) were among others to carry out this first Paediatric Heart Transplant in Andhra Pradesh, he maintained.

He also said, the proposed Sri Padmavathi Paediatric Super Specialty Hospital with area of 4.1 lakh Sq.ft and 350 beds, Air lift Ambulance Services facility and with 14 Paediatric Super Specialties with dedicated multi Organ transplant units viz.,

• Genetics

• Gastroenterology

• Urology & Uro-surgery

• Neurology & Neuro-surgery

• Nephrology

• Endocrinology

• Pulmonology

• Cardiology & Cardio Thoracic Surgery

• Haematology

• Medical Oncology and Surgical Oncology

• Multi Organ Transplant Unit.

are also coming up soon, he maintained. He said the hospital will render more and more surgeries to the needy with the benign blessings of Sri Venkateswara Swamy.

Earlier the Chairman also interacted with the mother of the boy who under went successful Heart Transplantation who expressed immense pleasure and thanked TTD for giving her child a new life.

JEO for Health and Education Smt Sada Bhargavi also present.