Government ENT Hospital, Visakhapatnam
Government ENT Hospital, which serves ear, nose and throat Diseases across Coastal Andhra, is located in Pedda Waltair, Visakhapatnam.
Services
The hospital started a cochlear implant surgery programme in 2015.
The hospital serves not only in Andhra Pradesh state it also serves patients from Odisha and Chhattisgarh and the hospital sees 500 outpatients a day and 50 surgeries in a week. There is only one audiologist, but four vacancies, and this has been the situation since 2009.
Medical staff at the hospital participated in a strike in September 2018 demanding revision of salaries.
The founding superintendent was Dr. M.V. Appa Rao
References
- ^ "details". indianexpress. 16 April 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
- ^ "Free cochlear implants at Govt ENT Hospital soon". Times of India. 10 April 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
- ^ "treatment". thehansindia. 4 August 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ^ "Doctors' boycott hits outpatient services". New Indian Express. 26 September 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2019.