LVPI will help strengthen healthcare ecosystem in Amaravati, says Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu
Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu performed the groundbreaking ceremony for a new L.V. Prasad Eye Institute facility in Amaravati. The project is part of a broader initiative to develop the city into a hub for healthcare, research, and deep-tech industries.
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Signals significant infrastructure and healthcare investment in the developing capital of Amaravati.
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.
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