The Hindu 05.11.2009
Mayor inaugurates health centre
Staff Reporter
VISAKHAPATNAM: Mayor Pulusu Janardhana Rao on Monday inaugurated Urban Health Centre at Gangavaram.
In his address, he said the Greater Visakha Municipal Corporation was spending Rs.28 crores for improving amenities by laying roads, improving sanitation, constructing six Sulabh complexes at Gangavaram.
The centre will cater to the needs of 18,000 people in the area. GVMC has entrusted the job of maintaining the centre to Nature, an NGO. The centre will have a doctor, two ANMs, three field workers. Local MLA Chintalapudi Venkataramaiah who took part in the inaugural said the opening of the centre would help the locals in getting timely treatment.
Among others, GVMC Chief Medical Officer Abbulu, doctors Kalyani and J. Nageswara Rao, Visakha AIDS Control Society secretary K.V.S.L. Sastry and Nature founder P. Balaraju were present.
