Guntur  :

The State government will introduce call center to help pregnant women, health minister Kamineni Srinivas said here on Sunday.

Addressing the media after inaugurating a causality block in St Joseph Hospital, he said that the call centre to be introduced from January 2016 will also provide the service of shifting mother and infant safely to their residence post delivery. The minister underscored the need for bringing more reforms in the medical and health sectors so as to extend best medical facilities to the needy.

Responding to a question he said the government plans to recruit 500 doctors on contract basis soon and also to take up recruitment of 1,000 nurses to fill vacancies of medical staff in government hospitals.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Andhra Pradesh / by Express News Service / December 28th, 2015