Health Minister T Harish Rao said on Tuesday that the number of dialysis centres in the state has grown from three to 102, with 50 lakh dialysis circles completed since Telangana’s formation.
The Health Minister, along with Energy Minister G Jagadish Reddy, inaugurated a five-bed dialysis centre in the district’s Primary Health Centre (PHC) of Choutuppal.
Speaking on the occasion, he stated that Telangana stood at the top of the country in providing dialysis facilities to patients suffering from kidney failure.
Following an examination of dialysis centres in the state, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin decided to establish dialysis centres in his state, he said, adding that the five-bed dialysis centre in Choutuppal was established at the request of Munugode MLA Koosukuntla Prabhakar Reddy.
Harish Rao promised a palliative care centre for cancer patients in Choutuppal and said a 100-bed hospital would open soon in Munugode. The Minister stated that while the Centre had not sanctioned a single medical college for Telangana, the BRS government had established medical colleges in Suryapet and Nalgonda in the erstwhile Nalgonda district. It had also given the Centre land for the establishment of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
However, the Centre had failed to provide the bare necessities to AIIMS Bibinagar students. Meanwhile, the state established eight medical colleges in Telangana in one year and plans to establish another eight in the following year.
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Later, inaugurating a 30-bed Community Health Centre (CHC) at Marriguda, Harish Rao said the State government had improved the quality of healthcare facilities in government hospitals with the target of achieving a “Arogya (healthy) Telangana”. As part of this, he said, doctors and hospital staff were being recruited, and he promised a free ambulance service from the Nalgonda Government General Hospital to hospitals in Hyderabad whenever critical cases required treatment.
Telangana State Medical Infrastructure Development Corporation Chairman Errolla Srinivas, Rajya Sabha member Badugula Lingaiah Yadav, Vidhya Vidhana Parishad Commissioner Dr Ajay Kumar, and others were present.
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