The Koranti Hospital in Hyderabad has once again risen to the occasion when a suspected case of another infection was identified. The first suspected case of monkeypox in the State is isolated there.
Prior to this, the first suspected case of COVID-19 in the State was admitted there in January of 2020. And in May-2018, a person suspected to be suffering from Nipah viral infection was brought to the hospital.
The hospital was established in 1915 by British nurses during the outbreak of Cholera here. Superintendent of the hospital K. Shankar pointed out that back then it was located in another place in Nallakunta, and thereafter shifted to the current premises in 1929. And in 1996, it was renamed as Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Tropical and Communicable Diseases.
