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Utilise services in Government Hospitals to avoid financial burden: Harish
Suryapet: Health Minister T Harish Rao on Saturday asked the people to utilise the services in Government Hospitals to get treatments to their illnesses, which would avoid financial burden on them. Inaugurating 20 bed SNCU in Mother and Child Centre on the premises of Government general Hospital at Suryapet, Harish Rao said that the state […]
Suryapet: Health Minister T Harish Rao on Saturday asked the people to utilise the services in Government Hospitals to get treatments to their illnesses, which would avoid financial burden on them.
Inaugurating 20 bed SNCU in Mother and Child Centre on the premises of Government general Hospital at Suryapet, Harish Rao said that the state government has improved the quality of health care services and developed required infrastructure in the government hospitals with an intention that getting health care services should not become financial burden to the poor people. Hence, people need not approach the private hospitals, which would charge hefty fees. Pregnant women should use the services of government hospitals for deliveries. He reminded that private hospitals used to charge Rs 30,000 for a delivery, but mp charges would be collected in the government hospitals. In addition to this, Rs 13,000 amount and KCR Kit would be extended them, he pointed out.
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He pointed out that NITI Aayog, an apex public policy think tank of the Government of India also certified that Telangana state stood in third in the county in ensuring best health care services to the people. We are striving to stand our state in first place, he added.
Reminding that 50 bed Mother and Child Hospital was running in the government general hospital, he said that neonatal health care services would also come to available in SNCU.
He said that the number of medical colleges was also increased to 18 in Telangana after its formation. He pointed out that two or three medical colleges also existed in Telangana in united Andhra Pradesh. Senior Congress leaders hailing from erstwhile Nalgonda district failed to get a medical college to the district. After formation of Telangana state, the Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao sanctioned a medical college to Suryapet and Nalgonda districts and released total Rs 1,000 crore for them.
Stating that 100 doctors of different specializations would available at Government General Hospital of Suryapet, he said that people has no need to go to Hyderabad for super specialty health care services. They can get all the required medical services in Suryapet Government General Hospital. He said that the construction of building of Government Medical College at Suryapet was almost all completed. The Chief Minister would inaugurate the college within two months, he added. About 900 bed Government General Hospitals would come up at each Nalgonda and Suryapet with the setting up of medical colleges, he added.
He has also announced additional five dialysis unit machines to each dialysis centres at Nalgonda and Suryapet to meet the demand. Energy Minister G Jagdish Reddy, MLAs Gadari Kishore Kumar and Bollam Mallaiah Yadav, Telangana State Medical Infrastructure Corporation Chairman Errolla Srinivas, Commissioner of Health Vakati Karuna and others were present.
Health Minister exhorts doctors to work with dedication
Later at a review meeting Health Minister T Harish Rao asked the doctors to works with dedication to serve the people as their profession was a sacred one.He said that doctors and officials of health department provided relentless services during the pandemic and extended medical services to the patients by risking their lives. As a part of it, the Chief Minister has recently sanctioned eight medical colleges and allocated Rs 500 crore for each college. The state government aims at providing corporate level health care services in the government hospitals to the poor people free of cost, he added.
He said that all the required medical equipment and infrastructure was provided to all government hospitals in the State. No hospital was facing the problem of shortage of medicines due to the initiative of the state government. He also instructed the officials for 100 percent completion the first and second dose of Covid vaccination in the district. Fever survey covered 9.32 people and extended isolation kits to 6,000 people, who were suffering from covid symptoms in the district. He also under the need to take up second phase of fever survey soon. He said that institutional deliveries in government hospitals were increased to 52 percent from 30 percent.
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