The Telangana government has launched medical infrastructure projects worth Rs 3, 000 crores in and around Hyderabad in the last 18 months, with a focus on developing government super-specialty healthcare facilities that will support the ever-increasing patient load in a metropolitan city like Hyderabad for the next decade.
The massive expenditure to develop super-specialty government healthcare services here is being undertaken simultaneously with ongoing efforts in the state to establish 33 new medical colleges along with attached 350-bed specialty teaching hospitals.
The State government has begun infrastructure upgrades at all major government teaching hospitals in the city over the last 12 to 18 months. While the main campus of Osmania General Hospital (OGH) at Afzalgunj is still in delays due to the heritage building, all of its affiliated super-specialty teaching hospitals in other parts of Hyderabad are being upgraded.
Fever Hospital, Koti ENT Hospital, and Chest Hospital, Erragadda, are upgrading, while maternity hospitals such as Petlaburj, Sultanbazaar, and Niloufer have already expanded in the last two to three years.
The State government is spending Rs. 11 crores to construct a new outpatient block within the hospital campus that can accommodate up to 1,000 patients, a dialysis facility, and a high-end mortuary at Fever Hospital.
Work on a new 100-bed state-of-the-art inpatient block with 8 modular operation theatres is underway at Koti ENT Hospital, costing nearly Rs. 35 crores.
The state government is also investing more than Rs. 100 crores to improve cancer care at MNJ Cancer Hospital. Apart from the Rs 65 crore new 300-bed block, the State government has spent nearly Rs.15 crore each in the last year to procure high-end diagnostic equipment such as CT scans and develop eight-Modular Operation Theatres at MNJ Cancer Hospital.
Aside from teaching hospitals affiliated with OGH, the State government has spent nearly Rs. 100 crore upgrading medical infrastructure at Gandhi Hospital. The hospital will soon have a 200-bed Mother and Child Health (MCH) facility, which will cost Rs. 50 crores, as well as a centralized state organ transplantation center, which will cost Rs. 30 crores. High-end CT and MRI imaging facilities worth over Rs 10 crore were recently launched.
The State government has spent nearly Rs. 186 crores in the last year or so to develop medical infrastructure at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS). An Amount of Rs. 2, 679 crores have been sanctioned for three super-specialty hospitals in LB Nagar, Sanathnagar, and Alwal, Medchal-Malkajgiri, in addition to the ongoing upgradation works at tertiary hospitals.
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