NIMS Hyderabad gets Paediatric heart surgery unit

Hyderabad: Telangana Minister for Health T.Harish Rao has inaugurated the state-of-the-art Paediatric Heart Surgery Unit at Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS).

The Unit was set up by the Rotary Club of Jubilee Hills and SUVEN Life Sciences.

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It is set up with an investment of Rs 4 crore under CSR funds by Suven Pharma Chairman and Managing Director Venkat Jasti to address Congenital Heart Diseases, prevalent in the undernourished populace of rural villages.

The facility is expected to benefit 750 kids annually and the Paediatric Heart Surgeries will be performed free of cost.

Harish Rao inaugurated this fully furnished modular 6 bedded Cardiothoracic ICU, Including a Class-l Air- conditioned isolation clean room suitable for the Heart Transplant facility.

Governor, Rotary International District 3150, K Prabhakar re-affirmed commitment of Rotary International's Focus Area of Disease Prevention & Treatment.

Speaking on the occasion, NIMS Director Dr K Manohar appraised that this facility helps poor patients to access high-end corporate facilities free of cost under government schemes.

Rotary Club of Jubilee Hills President P Suresh Gupta and Secretary Kalyan Panguluri also graced the inaugural function.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that the Department of Public Health and Family Welfare of the Telangana government has established two special boards in order to regulate the surrogacy and clinical establishments across the State.

The two councils to be set up include the Surrogacy Panel & Clinical Establishment Panel, which would overlook the implementation of the Surrogacy Act, 2021 and Clinical establishment Act, 2011 respectively.

The Telangana government has constituted the State Assisted Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy Board under the Surrogacy (Regulations) Act, 2021, along with notifying the appointment of Appropriate Authority for surrogacy and associated reproduction to regulate surrogacy and assisted reproduction.

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