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Siddipet: Finance Minister T Harish Rao has said that the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is known for its credibility in the country. However, the Finance Minister has expressed his disappointment about the Centre’s decision to privatise the LIC. After inaugurating the new LIC branch office building in Siddipet on Wednesday, Harish Rao said […]
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Nalgonda: In a surprising instance, the dry blood spot test facility in Mother and Child Hospital has been non-finctional since its launch in 2018, after irregularities were exposed in awarding the contract to a private laboratory. None seemed to take interest in restarting the facility which would immensely benefit the newborns in the hospital. Incidentally, […]
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Hyderabad: The State government on Tuesday reconstituted the Governing Council for Telangana State Yogadhyayana Parishad (TSYP), Hyderabad with Health Minister, T Harish Rao as Chairman and Secretary, Health, Medical and Family Welfare, SAM Rizvi as Vice-Chairman. Members of the Governing Council will include Commissioner, AYUSH and Dr Koppula Karunakar Reddy, Secretary, Government Education Department, Special […]
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Hyderabad: In the past seven decades, Telangana region had just three medical colleges while in seven years since statehood, the Telangana government established 33 medical colleges across the State, Health Minister, T Harish Rao said here on Thursday. Responding to charges made by Telangana Congress working presidents, J Geetha Reddy and T Jayaprakash Reddy (Jagga […]
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Siddipet: Finance and Health Minister T Harish Rao has said that the Government will soon set up a state-of-the-art cath lab at Government Hospital Siddipet to treat heart diseases. He said that the government will spend over Rs 10 crore to purchase the machinery. Only NIMS, Gandhi, Osmania, and District Hospital Khammam were having the […]
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Yadadri-Bhongir: Health Minister T Harish Rao on Friday announced that a five-bed dialysis centre would be set up at Area hospital of Bhongir in a month. Inaugurating 20-bed new born baby care centre in Bhongir area hospital, Harish Rao said that it came to his notice that patients of renal diseases were going to Hyderabad […]
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Siddipet: The Finance Minister T Harish Rao has asked the fisheries department officials of the erstwhile Medak district to initiate the process of forming new fishermen societies across the district since water resources have been increased during the past few years in the district. Speaking to the fisheries department officials and elected representatives of Medak […]
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Hyderabad: A collaborative study by Gleneagles Global Hospitals (GGH), Hyderabad and Cardiological Society of India (CSI), Telangana chapter, which screened nearly 10,000 patients in Hyderabad, has said that 50 percent of the population in the city is prone to hypertension. The survey, which is yet to be published in a peer-reviewed science journal, was released […]
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Hyderabad: The Telangana government in the coming months will launch a mass screening drive in all the 33 districts to diagnose individuals with hypertension and diabetes. To implement the special screening drive and identify individuals with hypertension and diabetes, a total of Rs. 33 crore has been allocated, State Health Minister, T Harish Rao on […]
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Hyderabad: For the first time, patients visiting State-run radiology testing laboratories in government hospitals of Telangana will be able to download their test reports on their mobile phones. Through the Telangana Diagnostics patient-centric mobile application, which was launched on Wednesday by Health Minister, T Harish Rao, patients who undergo diagnostic tests at designated laboratories that […]
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Hyderabad: City-based Vaastu exponent, Dr Venugopal Rao Veeramaneni, became the world’s first Vaastu and Astrology consultant to receive the prestigious ISO 22301:2019 for Business Sustainability and Continuity. He also received the ISO 10002:2018 certification, also a first Vaastu consultant to receive it, a press release said. The ISO 22301:2019 and ISO 10002:2018 certificates were formally […]
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Siddipet: National Neonatal Forum (NNF) had given 1st rank to Siddipet Special Newborn Care Unit (SNCU) among the 12 SNCUs located across Telangana. While the NNF had given 90 marks to Siddipet SNCU, the SNCUs located in Nalgonda and Gandhi Hospital came in second place with 78 marks. An expert committee from NNF had made […]
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Hyderabad: Countering the Congress party’s Farmers Declaration, the ruling TRS reminded that farmers in Punjab had rejected the grand old party in the recent elections and said Telangana farmers would not fall prey to the false assurances and deceptive politics. “It was not Rythu Sangarshana Sabha but it was Rahul Sangarshana Sabha,” tweeted Health Minister […]
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Hyderabad: Expanding the scope of medicare services to the urban poor, the State government has decided to introduce evening out-patient services at government hospitals in the city. Presently, government hospitals operate OP services only in the morning. The new initiative will help scores of poor and needy patients avail doctors’ consultations even in the evenings. […]
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Hyderabad: To encourage normal deliveries and curb C-sections in the government hospitals, the health department will take the help of Panchangam experts, who are much-sought after by would-be parents to come up with the exact ‘muhurtam’ (auspicious day and time) so that pregnant women can undergo caesarean section and deliver the baby. To this effect, […]
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Siddipet: Finance Minister T Harish Rao has termed the Food Corporation of India (FCI) officials’ inspection of 2,990 rice mils in Telangana at a time when the paddy procurement is underway as a conspiracy of the union government. Speaking to news reporters after a visit to Agriculture Market in Siddipet on Thursday, the Minister has […]
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Siddipet: Finance Minister T Harish Rao has inaugurated two free Mee Seva centres to issue Caste, Income, Residence, EWS, and other certificates to job aspirants at the MLA Camp office Siddipet on Wednesday evening. Since the Minister has received several complaints from job aspirants over the delay in issuing certificates, Rao has instructed the revenue […]
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Jagtial: Health Minister T Harish Rao informed that the state government was contemplating to provide incentives to medical staff who perform normal deliveries. ASHA workers, ANMs, doctors and staff nurses would be provided the benefit. The new initiative would be announced after getting approval from the Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao. So far, money has […]
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Hyderabad: Health Minister T. Harish Rao, who inaugurated the National Conference on Prevention of Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Anemia on Saturday, has responded positively to an appeal made by the Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Society (TSCS) on issuing government orders for a mandatory antenatal test – HbA2 for every pregnant woman in the first trimester […]
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Siddipet: Finance Minister T Harish Rao said that Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) will issue Group-1 notification for recruiting over 500 posts into different departments shortly. Speaking to news reporters after inaugurating the lunch facility at District Library Siddipet for the benefit of aspirants’ competitive examinations on Monday, the Finance Minister has said that […]
