Hi-tech vet hospital on the anvil

Hyderabad: A Super speciality veterinary hospital with the state-of-art technology will be a reality in six months from now. It wil come up near Shamshabad airport on PVNR Telangana Veterinary University campus.

According to officials of the University, this will be the one of a kind in South India. The new hospital, Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex (TVCC), at a cost of Rs 11.80 crore is being constructed in an area of 50,410 sq ft. It will perform all kinds of surgeries and offer research facilities for students of veterinary sciences.

“The existing hospital on the university campus is providing healthcare to about 25,000 animals every year. Once the new hospital is completed, the number is expected to go up to about 1 lakh cases a year.

Our patients comprise cattle, buffaloes, sheep, goats, dogs, cats and other pet animals,” said an official.

Biggest in entire South India
The TVCC building being constructed will be the biggest Veterinary Hospital not only in the State and but also in South India.

It will have outpatient services and a casualty ward. All the clinical departments will be accommodated in the new building, so that the specialists are available under single roof.

The super speciality services include preventive and clinical medicine, ophthalmology, cardiology, dermatology, gynaecology and obstetrics, besides facilities like artificial insemination.

The TVCC will offer a state-of-the-art diagnostic services like computer radiology, C-arm Image intensification imaging, diagnostic ultrasonography and endoscopy services.

Operation theatres
The hospital will be provided with four well-equipped modern operation theatres for performing soft tissue, orthopaedic, ophthalmic and laparoscopic and gastroenterological surgeries.

In addition to these, new TVCC complex will also have two modern and well-equipped operation theatres for surgeries on the sheep and goats. Further, the hospital will have an Operation Theatre exclusively for surgeries of the large animals.

These facilities will be created from the newly renovated buildings of the Department of Surgery and the Campus Veterinary Hospitals.

The TVCC will also comprise a well-equipped disease diagnostic laboratory for diagnosis in patients with automatic haematological and biochemical analysers.