The sole aim of all government healthcare workers should be to make Telangana the number one state in the country in terms of healthcare services, said Health Minister T Harish Rao on Sunday.
Coordination and cooperation among different wings and caregivers enabled the state to reach the third spot in the country after Kerala and Maharashtra. “By improving our performance in other healthcare parameters, we must all strive to achieve and become the best performing state in the health sector,” Harish Rao in a review meeting with senior health officials said.
To ensure that quality healthcare services are available to all, the State government has launched several initiatives in recent years, including free medicines, medical infrastructure upgrades, T-Diagnostics, free dialysis, etc, he said.
The District Medical and Health Officers (DM&HO) must stay current on local issues and ensure that healthcare services are delivered efficiently. He stated that the district government teaching hospitals were now adequately equipped and that patients should be referred to them rather than to teaching hospitals in Hyderabad.
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The health department should also focus on increasing walk-in patients at Basthi Dawakhanas and start offering health care services after 2 p.m. on Sundays.
The Minister urged the health department to continue its efforts to ensure that all deliveries were natural and that C-sections were reserved for high-risk pregnant women. Senior health officials were present, including Secretary of Health S A M Rizvi and others.
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