Till four months ago, patients approaching the Karveti Nagaram PHC and the seven other such facilities in the neighbouring mandals in GD Nellore constituency were being referred to big government and corporate hospitals in Tirupati, Chittoor or Vellore in Tamil Nadu to get themselves tested for coronavirus, tuberculosis and dengue infections.
The patients in the need of diagnostic tests like complete blood count, lipid profiles, functioning of vital organs such as kidney and liver had to travel far-off places.
The ordeals have become a thing of past as the Karveti Nagaram PHC is now equipped with advanced diagnostic equipment such as CB-NOT machine, CBC-machine, and Semi-Auto-Analyser (SAA), apart from ECG equipment.
