BIRRD Ranked As A National Referral Hospital - TTD Eo

TTD EO Sri AV Dharma Reddy asserted that the TTD-run BIRRD hospital with its proficiency expertise and infrastructure is completely geared to handle critical surgeries and is ranked as a national-level referral hospital.

Inaugurating the three-day Operative Arthoplasty Summit at the Grand Ritz hotel on Friday in the temple city, the EO said such summits are usually rarely be conducted in the country with just 10-12 live surgery sessions. But the BIRRD summit has scheduled 22 live surgeries in three days by top 20 Ortho surgeons of the country and nearly 200 surgeons are attending the summit.

He said such conferences promote exchange of skills and new concepts and expands the horizons of medical history in the country.

The BIRRD hospital is conducting several such critical operations including cerebral palsy surgeries free of cost and medical exponents from across the country have been visiting Tirupati and extending their services for whom TTD provides free accommodation, transport, food besides Srivari Darshan.

He complimented the OSD of BIRRD hospital Dr Reddappa Reddy, Dr Pradip, Dr Venugopal and Dr Deepak for their excellent coordination in conducting the first of its kind Summit in a big way.

Dr Krishna Kumar, a visiting Ortho expert said BIRRD hospital will soon earn its place on the world map and debutant doctors would have a lot to learn here.

Dr Martin Zimmerman, a hip replacement expert of Switzerland gave a presentation on new medical technology in Arthoplasty surgeries.

Dr Rajesh Malhotra, Head of the Orthopaedic wing at AIIMS, New Delhi said the BIRD summit had achieved a remarkable feat of bringing all kneecap transplants on a single platform and providing opportunity for treatment to poor patients.

On the first day of the summit, Dr Martin Zimmerman of Ceram Tec Hospital of Switzerland, Dr BD Mukherjee of Apollo Hospital, Kolkata, Dr Uday Krishna of KIMS Hospital, Secunderabad, Dr JV Srinivas of Escort Hospital, Bangalore, Dr Rajkumar of Ranga hospital, Coimbatore, Dr Chandrasekhar of Care hospital, Hyderabad and Dr Rajesh Malhotra, Head of Orthopaedic wing at AIIMS, New Delhi were present.

The summit participants watched the live surgeries of critical cases conducted by experts in the state of art operation theatres at BIRRD Hospital.

TTD JEO (Health and Education) Smt Sada Bhargavi, Chief Audit Officer Sri Sesha Shailendra, BIRRD OSD Dr R Reddappa Reddy, Meril representative Dr Vivek, Tirupati Orthopaedic Society president Dr Purnachandra Rao, Co-president Dr . Vishnu Kumar and others were present.