Andhra Pradesh gets its first digital nerve centre in Chittoor

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu with other officials during the inauguration of the state’s first Tata Digital Nerve Centre in Chittoor district on Thursday.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu inaugurated the state’s first Tata Digital Nerve Centre (DiNC) in Chittoor district on Thursday, Telangana Today reported.

The centre, linked to 13 primary health centres (PHCs) and 92 village health centres, will offer connected, continuous, proactive, and patient-centric healthcare to strengthen public health infrastructure.

The healthcare centre offers 12 primary healthcare services and digitizes patients’ health records. “Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu inaugurated the Tata Digital Nerve Centre, the first such facility established in Kuppam,” Telangana Today cited a press release.

As per the report, the initiative promises early and timely diagnosis, personalised counselling, better coordination, improved patient convenience, reduced costs, and virtual specialist access at PHCs.

In the first phase, the services have been rolled out in Kuppam, and later will be expanded across the Chittoor district in the second phase. The services will be expanded statewide in the third phase, the release added.