Telangana to set up 5 super specialty hospitals in next 2 years

Hyderabad: Telangana Health and Finance Minister T Harish Rao on Saturday said the Government is spending Rs 120 crores to develop MNJ cancer hospital into a super specialty hospital and upgrading it into a 450 bedded hospital.

Besides this, we will be setting up five super specialty hospitals in the next two years, to treat poor for serious ailments like cancer, kidney, heart , said Harish while addressing at the 8th-anniversary celebrations of the Grace Cancer Foundation (GCF) held here.

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Four of these hospitals will be in Hyderabad and one in Warangal, the Minister said we will be spending Rs 10000 crores on healthcare in the next two years.

Earlier hunger and poverty were the problems in the country, but today health is the major concern and it is impacting lower middle class and middle-class families financially, leaving no scope for recovery from it, he said that is the reason, the Government wants to provide poor people with corporate treatment.

In cancer most importantly we require screening and early detection, that can enable us to win half the battle. Many patients are losing their lives due to lack of awareness and not seeking treatment in the initial stages of cancer, he said.

To overcome this, the Telangana government has set up a dedicated Training institute to train the ASHA workers, ANMs, Staff nurses, PHC doctors, to facilitate screening of every woman at the PHC level, said Harish.

Harish said, we all have immense respect for doctors, but Dr Chinna Babu, the CEO of GCF, despite working in a corporate hospital, devotes one day of the week for serving the poor, he is committing himself to a social responsibility by going to Nizamabad every week, giving consultation to poor patients and sparing his personal time, instead of spending that time with his family or for earning more money.

The Health Minister appealed to all the doctors is to commit themselves to social responsibility like Dr Chinna Babu, because the poor in the society deserve empathy.Today cancer is causing immense distress to people, besides Corona, he added.

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