Adilabad: The state government will soon introduce Telangana Diagnostics Services at the district, area and primary health care unit levels as a preventive measure to control the spread of diseases.
The government wants to focus on preventive healthcare measures to detect ailing persons early so that they can be treated before the disease, especially such as cancer, turns worse.
Health minister C. Laxma Reddy said preventive measures such as creating awareness among the people about health, vaccinations, early detection and treatment in the rural and tribal areas was the aim of the programme.
The government was planning to create health awareness programmes in local language for two months with Kalajatha teams.
He was speaking to this newspaper on the sidelines of a function to inaugurate new equipment at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences here.
Dr Laxma Reddy said the government intended to conduct screening tests at government hospitals to spot those who were ailing early.
“The Telangana Diagnostics Services will be better than in corporate hospitals. It will be better than Vijaya Diagnostics,” the minister said.
Immunisation of children has increased to 95 per cent from 66 per cent, he said. The government is planning to convert semi-autonomous medical college-cum-hospitals into autonomous institutions so that authorities can recruit the doctors and other staff by themselves instead of waiting for the government nod.
