Health Minister Harish Rao said on Thursday that awareness on public health has increased considerably in the society after the COVID pandemic, with both people and governments understanding its importance leading to scaling up of facilities in public and private sectors.
Speaking after inaugurating the new academic building complex of the Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH) at Rajendranagar here on Thursday, he recollected that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had allotted 4.5 acres land for the institute and also ₹10 crore funding for IIPH.
The Minister said that the efforts initiated by the Telangana Government for the last eight years had started yielding results and programmes such as Palle Pragathi and Pattana Pragathi had controlled the incidence of seasonal diseases such as malaria and dengue. The State has made rapid strides in the public health sector and its progress on several health indices was an indication of it.
