Unfazed by the lack of support from the Centre, the Telangana government has spent a staggering Rs 6,669 crore in the last 18 months on the development of specialty healthcare facilities in district hospitals, the establishment of 16 medical colleges, and the establishment of a super specialty Warangal Health City.
The State government is in the process of upgrading eight major district hospitals, as well as constructing new medical colleges that will be attached to them, to ensure specialty healthcare facilities are available in government district hospitals. These eight medical colleges will be built in Vikarabad, Siricilla, Khammam, Kamareddy, Karimnagar, Jayashankar Bhupalpally, Asifabad, and Jangaon, each with 100 MBBS seats.
Simultaneously, the attached district hospitals in these districts are being converted into teaching hospitals, with each hospital being upgraded from 150 to 200 beds to 300 or 350 beds.
The entire initiative of establishing these eight new medical colleges, which will be available beginning with the next academic year, 2023-24, is being undertaken at a cost of Rs 1479 crore, which has already been approved by the State government.
Aside from these eight new medical colleges, the State government has already spent Rs 4080 crore in the last year or so to develop eight medical colleges and the associated district hospitals. These medical colleges with attached teaching hospitals will begin operations in the 2022-23 academic year.
Each of the eight medical colleges and the existing district hospital in Sangareddy, Mahabubabad, Mancherial, Jagtiyal, Wanaparthy, Kothagudem, Nagarkurnool, and Ramagundam have received close to Rs 510 crore from the state government. From this academic year, these new medical colleges will offer 150 MBBS seats, for a total of 1200 MBBS seats.
To ensure that patients in Telangana do not have to rely solely on Hyderabad for super specialty healthcare services in government hospitals, the state is also developing Warangal Health City, a Rs 1110 crore super specialty healthcare facility.
Once the new medical colleges are operational, the total number of government medical colleges in Telangana will increase to 28, with the remaining five medical colleges from the remaining 33 districts being added in the final phase, according to health officials.
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