Best Performing Unit – World Environment Day 2023 | Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Prasanthigram
Loving Sai Ram and greetings from Prasanthi Nilayam.
With the Divine Blessings of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Prasanthigram received an award of recognition for clean and green initiatives undertaken with best practices in environmental management on June 05, 203 – World Environment Day.
Dr Gurumurthy (Director, SSSIHMS – PG) and Sri P Haranath (Chief Engineer) collected the award from Sri Peddi Reddy Ramachandra Reddy (Hon’ble Minister for Energy, Environment, Forest, Science & Technology, Mines & Geology, Andhra Pradesh) during a function conducted by the AP Pollution Control Board with the theme – ‘Solutions to Plastic Pollution’ held at Vijayawada.
Constructed in six months with a structural area of 320,000 sq ft, SSSIHMS-PG is the first super speciality hospital in India to offer world-class tertiary care totally free of charge to all patients through state-of-the-art medical technology.
The hospital is dedicated to encouraging environment management and energy conservation within the campus with green initiatives such a sewage treatment plant of 500 kld capacity, solar power generation of 1.9 MW capacity, check dams for water conservation, tree plantation, biomedical waste segregation with proper colour coding for ease of disposal, energy efficient lighting etc.
This 300 bedded tertiary care hospital is equipped with 14 operation theatres, 5 intensive care units, two cardiac catheterisation laboratories, five in-patient wards and a 24-hour emergency unit with specialities in cardiology, cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, urology, ophthalmology, plastic surgery, orthopaedics, gastroenterology, anaesthesiology, laboratory services and medical imaging.
SSSIHMS believes that environmental preservation and management is a journey and not the end and strives continuously to evolve and maintain the standards and thereby protect the environment.
Sri RJ Rathnakar (Managing Trustee, SSSCT) who met with the Director, SSSIHMS this evening, congratulated the dedicated staff of Swami’s hospital on behalf of the Trustees, on achieving this award.
