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Hyderabad: The State government on Sunday directed District Medical and Health Officers (DM&HOs), programme officers and medical officers to spend at least one night in a month at Primary Health Centres (PHCs) which will not only improve the quality of healthcare but also highlight limitations in the system that need to be addressed. Health Minister, […]
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Hyderabad: The Central Government attempted to usurp Telangana Government’s schemes by claiming to extend 54 lakh tap connections in the State under the Jal Jeevan Mission, while it had not extended any assistance to the State Government’s initiative of providing water connections to every household under Mission Bhagiratha programme. This came to light on Saturday, […]
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Siddipet: Finance Minister T Harish Rao said that Palle Pragathi has changed the face of villages in the Siddipet district. Addressing the gathering after unfurling the national flag on the occasion of Telangana Formation Day, the Minister said that they were raising 62 lakh saplings in 489 nurseries across Siddipet. During the fourth phase of […]
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Siddipet: To celebrate Finance Minister T Harish Rao’s birthday on June 3 in a unique way, some of his followers will be launching THR Helping Challenge. His followers and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) workers, who accept the challenge, will have to help someone in need. After helping the person, they will have to take a […]
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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 […]
