Each dialysis center with medical equipment costing ₹75 lakh will provide treatment to 15 persons through three sessions per day. File | Photo credit: KOMMURI SRINIVAS
Seven new dialysis centers will be set up in Andhra Pradesh under the national dialysis scheme Pradhan Mantri, says Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav.
At present, there are 232 dialysis centers in Andhra Pradesh. The seven new centers will be set up at S. Kota district hospitals in Vizianagaram district, Bhimavaram in West Godavari district, Pileru in Chittoor district and Community Health Centers (CHCs) at Seethampeta in Parvathipuram-Manyam district, Venkatagiri in Nellore district, Addanki district of Bapattyndala and of Sunni Bapattala District in Chittoor District.
In an official statement on Tuesday, the health minister said that each centre, which has medical equipment costing around ₹75 crore, will provide treatment to 15 people through three sessions per day.
The S. Kota and Seethampeta centers will be operational soon, the minister said, adding that they will be run on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model.
He said AP State Medical Infrastructure Development Corporation has been directed to float tenders for running the remaining centres.
The minister said the centres, which were set up on the demand of public representatives and people, would prevent people from traveling long distances to get treatment at the hospital.
Of the 232 existing centres, 173 were being run on PPP model through NTR Vaidya Seva Trust, the minister said. The NDA government has spent ₹164 crore on kidney patients in the financial year 2024-25, he added.
Published – 21 Oct 2025 20:45 IST
