Established 1993 Phone 0877 228 7777 Founded 1993 | Nickname SVIMS Total enrollment 519 (2014) | |
Type Institute under State Legislature Act Director Dr.Thanjavur S. Ravikumar, M.S.,FACS, FRCS(C), FRCS(Ed) Affiliations University Grants Commission, Medical Council of India Similar Sri Venkateswara University, Sri Padmavati Mahila Vi, Dr NTR University of Health, Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapee, Dravidian University | ||
Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS) is a Medical Institute under State Legislature Act and a speciality hospital in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.
SVIMS was conceived on the lines of All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi, and was created by an act of the Andhra Pradesh State Legislature. The foundation stone was laid on 18 April 1986 by N. T. Rama Rao, the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. The hospital started functioning from 2 February 1993 and later became a Medical Institute under State Legislature Act in 1995. The current Director is Thanjavur S. Ravikumar.
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