SVIMS to offer AI-based medical services soon, says TTD chairman
Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS) will soon offer Artificial Intelligence based medical services and perform a higher share of surgeries through robotic arms, announced Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) chairman B.R. Naidu on Wednesday (June 11).
He was speaking at the 13th convocation of the TTD-run medical university held here. He recalled the institute's meteoric rise right from it was conceived by the then Chief Minister the late N.T. Rama Rao in 1993 to getting on the verge of becoming an Institute of National Importance.
The institute has been reaching out to the poor and needy patients from Rayalaseema for the past three decades, offering services to 1,500 out patients and 750 in patients everyday.
'SVIMS is only the second in the public sector in the country to run an all-women medical college, which is a matter of pride,' Mr. Naidu added. The college produces 175 female doctors every year in the specialties of cardiology, cardiac surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, nephrology, urology and oncology.
Executive Officer J. Shyamala Rao congratulated the 501 young doctors graduating from the institute and hailed SVIMS for becoming the first public sector medical institute in India to perform triple transplantation surgery of heart, liver and kidney.
Recalling the TTD's spending in medical infrastructure, Mr. Naidu listed out the new buildings under construction, viz., the cancer block, cardio neuro blocks, specialties block, central kitchen, central warehouse, staff quarters and accommodation for the patients' attendants.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS-Madurai) director M. Hanumantha Rao, who delivered the convocation address, wanted SVIMS to become an institute of national importance soon.
He said such institutes always have an edge in funding support, autonomy in decision making, curricular design, resource allocation, global recognition and scope for collaboration with other reputable institutions. 'SVIMS has all the requisites to become an INI', he remarked.
SVIMS director and vice-chancellor R.V. Kumar read out the annual report and thanked the TTD trust board for taking up developmental works at the hospital. Scholars led by SVIMS dean Alladi Mohan showered Vedic hymns (Vedasirvachanams) on the graduates.
Director of medical education (Academic) G. Raghunandan and SVIMS registrar Aparna R. Bitla also took part.
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