amaravati in an attempt to strengthen infrastructure in public healthcare institutions international bank for reconstruction and development ibrd has agreed to grant a loan of rs 9700 crore to the andhra pradesh governmentthe state government is gearing up to launch the works as the centre gave its green signal for taking the loan from the international lending agency the department of economic affairs dea in the union finance ministry has stamped its nod for the loan to be treated as externally aided projects eapfollowing the instructions of chief minister ys jagan mohan reddy medical and health departments readied a plan for renovation and strengthening of primary health centres phcs and community health centres chcsthe health department was of the view that improving the facilities at territorylevel hospitals would improve healthcare particularly for the poorbesides it was estimated that it would lessen burden on big hospitals like district and teaching hospitals as part of the plans to expand healthcare services to villagelevel the government has also proposed to set up ysr village clinics which would act as first healthcare centres in the villagesubsequently the chief minister directed the officials to include renovation and upgradation of infrastructure in teaching hospitals government general hospitals all the existing 11 gghs in the state would be turned into stateofthe art superspecialty healthcare institutions with advanced medical infrastructure in almost all the specialties said deputy chief minister health and family welfare alla nanithe government is planning to set up eight government medical colleges along with nursing colleges the government also granted seven super specialty hospitals exclusively for tribal agency areas in srikakulam vizianagaram visakhapatnam and east godavari prakasam districtsthe government is planning to launch the works at least on three government medical colleges in the current financial year and has constituted a separate medical education and research corporation apmerc to raise funds