Government ENT Hospital, Visakhapatnam

Government ENT Hospital, which serves ear, nose and throat Diseases across Coastal Andhra, is located in Pedda Waltair, Visakhapatnam.[1]

Services
The hospital started a cochlear implant surgery programme in 2015. [2]

The hospital serves not only in Andhra Pradesh state it also serves patients from Odisha and Chhattisgarh and the hospital sees 500 outpatients a day and 50 surgeries in a week. There is only one audiologist, but four vacancies, and this has been the situation since 2009. [3]

Medical staff at the hospital participated in a strike in September 2018 demanding revision of salaries.[4]

The founding superintendent was Dr. M.V. Appa Rao

References
 "details". indianexpress. 16 April 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
 "Free cochlear implants at Govt ENT Hospital soon". Times of India. 10 April 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
 "treatment". thehansindia. 4 August 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
 "Doctors' boycott hits outpatient services". New Indian Express. 26 September 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
Category: Hospitals in Visakhapatnam
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