To build a hospital for the needy on the lines of AIIMS, Delhi, the Tirupati Tirumala Devasthanams or T.T.D. founded the Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, a sophisticated super specialty hospital at Tirupati in 1986. It is a medical university of repute with the blessings of Lord Venkateswara. SVIMS hospital has acquired the state-of-art equipment with well recognised faculty & best practices. It is a Superspeciality hospital comprising of SPMC(W) college, Nursing college, Physiotherapy, and Allied health science. The following departments offer their services for the public: Anaesthesiology, Anatomy, Biochemistry, C.T.Surgery, Cardiology, Endocrinology, Gyanecology & Obstetrics, General Surgery, Hematology, Medical Gastroenterology, Medical Oncology, Medicine, Microbiology, Nephrology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Nuclear Medicine , Pathology, Physiology, Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Surgical Gastroenterology, Surgical Oncology , Transfusion Medicine and Urology.