Chennai: To offer better healthcare services to the under privileged, Health Minister Dr C Vijayabaskar today inaugurated the state-of-the-art biplane digital subtraction angiogram cath lab at a cost of Rs 6.53 crore in Stanley Government Hospital.
This is the fourth hospital in the State to get the facility and caters to the needs of interventional radiology clinic and in-patients department. Three doctors, equal number of nurses and technicians have been appointed to work here.
With this equipment, block, weakness and leak in blood vessels can be treated without performing a surgery.
The Health Minister also announced that cath lab costing Rs 21 crore each will be soon launched in government medical college and hospitals in Villupuram, Dharmapuri, Kanyakumari, Tuticorin, Theni and Pudhukottai.
Amma water dispensing unit was also inaugurated at Stanley Government Hospital by Transport Minister M R Vijaya Baskar today.