Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has given his green signal for construction of four new 1,000-bedded multispeciality hospitals in GHMC limits. Mr Rao asked officials to identify land for the new multispeciality hospitals in Uppal-LB Nagar, Malkajgiri-Secunderabad Cantonment, Qutbullahpur-Kukatpally and Serilingampally-Rajenderanagar areas. While the existing King Koti hospital in city will be turned into a multispeciality hospital, special towers would be constructed for women and child welfare in MGM hospital in Warangal in addition to the multispeciality hospital attached to the health university.
Expressing anguish over the poor medicare facilities and absence of some doctors in rural government hospitals, the CM told officials to modify the law to ensure doctors stay in the place of their posting, follow fixed working hours and get basic facilities. Not only junior doctors but also qualified doctors appointed by the government should work in rural areas for some time, Mr Rao said. The health university, medical college and multispeciality hospital in Warangal will come up in Central jail premises.
Government hospitals in Karimnagar, Khammam and Suryapet will also be upgraded. Mr Rao took these decisions during a review of the medical and health department as part of a pre-Budget exercise and allocation of funds for various projects under the department here on Saturday. “Prepare a detailed project report soon. Purchase all the required equipment, recruit doctors and other paramedical staff,” Mr Rao said. Health minister Laxma Reddy, finance minister Etala Rajender and senior officials of the health department participated.
The CM’s review comes a day after Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan’s surprise visit to Gandhi Hospital on Friday, where he expressed his anger at the appalling conditions in the hospital. Mr Rao told the meeting that every district should have four MRIs in different corners of the state, 40 such equipment besides CT scans, ultrasound, mammography, facilities for scanning breast cancer, treatment of heart, kidney, liver and other serious ailments and medicines in all government hospitals in state.
Attenders of patients should also be provided beds, he added. The CM asked the department to promote Ayurveda, Homoeopathy, and Unani along with Allopathy, adding government hospitals should be on par with private corporate hospitals. He decided to send a high-level delegation headed by the health minister to Tamil Nadu to study the functioning of government hospitals there. Besides, the CM is keen that 104 and 108 services are lined with highway patrol vehicles and police to ensure prompt medical attention to victims of road accidents.
