Nearly 160 contract nurses hired during the Covid pandemic have not received salaries for five months and staged a dharna at the DME office in Hyderabad. They demanded immediate payment, accusing health officials of negligence and warning of an indefinite strike
Helping Hand Foundation (HHF), in collaboration with Basheer and Sarwar Babu Human Development Trust, has set up patient help desks at Koti Maternity Hospital. Trained health workers will assist in OPD registrations, ABHA IDs, and patient support, while HHF also repaired lifts.
The court issued the directive after taking suo motu cognizance of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) triggered by a report titled 'Nirlaksyapu Needana Amma Vedana' highlighting the hospital’s poor conditions
While earlier, the initiative used to cover anywhere between 18,000 and 20,000 attenders per day, the number has gradually come down to 4,000 to 5,000 patient attenders per day.
