Patients identified under TTD-run Pranadana scheme

Saturday, March 17, 2007, 15:22 [IST]

Tirupati, Mar 16 (UNI) The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD)-run Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS) will treat 120 patients suffering from various major ailments under the TTD's Pranadana scheme.

SVIMS, in a press release here today, said poor patients requiring super speciality treatment have been selected for free of cost under the scheme.

The treatment would be given to patients suffering from heart ailments, cancer, brain-related cases, kidney, neurology, besides four cases referred by the government maternity and SVRR hospital.

The patients were selected by a committee headed by SVIMS Director G Subramanyam, the release added.

UNI

Topics: HEALTH-AP-SVIMS-PRANADANA

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