Date:01/07/2004 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2004/07/01/stories/2004070108530300.htm

Andhra Pradesh

SVIMS `Master check-up' programme

By Our Staff Reporter

TIRUPATI. June 30. For the benefit of the general public, the SVIMS has decided to operate its `Master check-Up' programme on all working days instead of on alternate days as at present.

The hospital has put its Head, Department of Oncology, Sambasivaiah, in-charge of the programme.

Those desirous of availing of the scheme come fasting for investigations between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m., a SVIMS press note said.

TTD gesture: The TTD, which operates the `Prana Dana Trust' to provide free medicare to the poor and the needy, helped a 35-year-old woman, suffering from a rheumatic heart disease, undergo MVR surgery at SVIMS.

A team of CT surgeons led by the hospital Director and Professor of Cardiology, G. Subramanyam, successfully performed the surgery on Syamalamma from Regallu village in Piler mandal, a press release said.