Telangana: Govt provides Rs 5 meals, thrice a day to patient attendants

Hyderabad: For the purpose of providing meals at a low cost, the Telangana government received huge praise from the citizens for providing three meals every day to attendants of patients at government hospitals by charging a nominal Rs 5 for each meal. 

Abdul Khadir from Golconda Hospital said, "We get idli and dosa for breakfast. We get rice and dal for lunch and dinner. We get one meal at Rs 5. It's a good initiative for poor people. We get sufficient, good-quality food on time. We are grateful to our MLA of Karwan, Kausar Moinuddin, and Telangana chief minister KCR."

The citizens lauded the efforts of the Telangana CM for providing meals at a nominal price to the attendants at govt hospitals.

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"The Rs.5 food scheme of the government is good. We have been eating this for the last 6 months. We get idli, upma, bagara khana and pulihora for breakfast and dal, rice and curries for lunch. We also get chai in the evenings. We can fill our stomachs for just Rs 5. The KCR government is doing a good job for the poor people," said Subhash, a citizen.

Other citizens of the state too thanked the CM for providing food and said, "We get good quality food. We get rice, dal, curry, idli, upma, khichdi, curd rice, and vegetable biryani. We get unlimited food of different types each day. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are available here."

The people are grateful to the Telangana Government and Chief Minister KCR for the care and support of poor people, ANI reports.

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that the government of Telangana will spend Rs 10,000 crore over the next two years to provide world-class healthcare facilities to the poor in the state. The decision was taken at the State Cabinet meeting.

Chaired by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, it was decided at the meeting that the government will focus on the public health sector the way it strengthened irrigation sector and brought qualitative changes.

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