LVPI will help strengthen healthcare ecosystem in Amaravati, says Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday said that L.V. Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) in Amaravati would strengthen the capital’s healthcare ecosystem.

“It will be developed as an eye care and research centre,” the Chief Minister said after performing ‘bhumi puja’ for the institute.

Mr. Naidu said the facility was being established on 12 acres with capacity to treat three lakh people annually. “Besides eye care, it will undertake research and training programmes, and will also have an Eye and Brain Centre,” he said.

He said the institute had so far provided three-crore eye treatments and was serving poor patients through 319 centres across four States. Its digital health eye profile initiative would help provide timely treatment.