Government is making all out efforts to change the face of health in the State by improving the facilities in hospitals and upgrading them, Health Minister Laxma Reddy and Irrigation Minister T. Harish Rao said.
Medical facilities and treatment would be extended to patients in government hospitals on scale and style of corporate hospitals, the ministers said after inaugurating the 150-bed Mother and Child Health Hospital constructed at an estimated cost of ₹20 crore here on Friday.
The hospital resembles a corporate hospital with all modern facilities and is located on the government hospital premises.
Additional facilities
The government has been according top priority for health and education and improving facilities in hospitals from primary health centre to district hospitals, Dr. Laxma Reddy said. The government has sanctioned 40 dialysis centres across the state, including at Sangareddy, Zaheerabad and Narayanakhed, and intensive care units (ICU) in all district hospitals. The Health Minister has also promised to sanction Mahaprasthanam vehicle (to carry bodies for last journey) shortly.
A Wellness Centre that would serve employees and even journalists and a dialysis centre would be opened in the next two months in the district, Mr. Harish Rao said.
“Not even a single ICU used to be there in the government hospital during the past 60 years in the combined Medak district. Now 20 ICU were sanctioned across the State, including in Sangareddy. Similarly, for the first time in the country ‘single usage dialysis centre’ are coming up in the State,” said Mr. Harish Rao adding that urology and cardiology centres will be coming up at Sangareddy and Khammam at an estimated cost of ₹3.5 crore each.
More doctors
The Mother and Child Hospital would have 16 delivery wards, the Minister added.
A centre for conducting Diplomate National Board (DNB) exams will come up at the Sangareddy hospital which would help make 15 specialist doctors available at the hospital.
