The Government Victoria General Hospital, generally called Gosha Hospital, is the first women and children's hospital in the

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city which has served more than a century. It is located at Chengal Rao Peta, Visakhapatnam.

History

King Goday Narayana Gajapathi Rao bought land for this hospital in 1894. In the early days, this hospital was run by Hilda Mary Lazarus with the permission of establishing the hospital from

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. The hospital's name was changed to Victoria Hospital in 1949. This hospital was comes under government of Madras.

Services

This hospital serves women and children. The current capacity of this hospital is 200 beds and the

Government of Andhra Pradesh Government of Andhra Pradesh, abbreviated as, GOAP, or, Andhra Government, is the subnational government for the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is an elected government with 175 MLAs elected to the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh fo ...

expanding it with 100 more beds.

References

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