Centre’s AYUSH, Telangana govt at loggerheads over Bhupalpally hospital building

AYUSH officials allege that district administration, without their knowledge, erected board of Government Nursing College on AYUSH hospital building

Bhupalpally: A controversy has erupted after the district administration erected Government Nursing college board on the newly constructed AYUSH hospital building. The Department of AYUSH lodged a complaint with the State Medical and Health Department secretary against the district administration’s action.

The AYUSH officials alleged that the district administration, without their knowledge, erected a board of the Government Nursing College on the AYUSH hospital building. The Centre sanctioned AYUSH hospitals with 50 beds each in Bhupalpally, Siddipet and Vikarabad districts in the State. The Union AYUSH Ministry allocated Rs 15 crore each for setting up the hospital and of this, Rs 10 crore was sanctioned for construction of buildings and Rs 5 crore for equipment and recruitment of human resources.

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The Telangana State Medical Services and Infrastructure Development Corporation (TGMIDC) was entrusted with the responsibility of constructing the buildings. Recently, the construction of buildings was completed, but without any information to the AYUSH Department, the nursing college board was set up on the building, leading to controversy between the two government bodies.

When the AYUSH Department questioned the officials concerned about the nursing college board, they reportedly said they were following the instructions of the Collector. The AYUSH officials are worried as a central team had already inspected the AYUSH hospital constructed at Siddipet and handed over it to the local staff and soon the team would be visiting Bhupalpally for inspection and if the nursing college board was not removed by then, there would be problem as the building had been constructed using central funds.

However, TGMIDC engineer clarified that the building was constructed for the purpose of AYUSH hospital and that there was no change in the plan and would be handed over to the AYUSH Department soon.