Minister for Health and Finance T. Harish Rao on Tuesday said Telangana is ahead of other States in non-communicable disease (NCD) screening as it has been done for about 1 crore population so far. He urged people to avail the opportunity to get screened and control their health problem by using the medicine kit being supplied by the State government free of cost.
Mr. Harish Rao, along with Minister for Panchayat Raj and Rural Development E. Dayakar Rao, Minister for Tribal, Women and Child Welfare Satyavathi Rathod, local legislator B. Shankar Naik and chairman of Telangana State Medical Services Infrastructure Development Corporation Errolla Srinivas, laid the foundation stone for a building for the district hospital at Mahabubabad and other buildings for a medical college coming up at a cost of ₹550 crore.
The expansion of district hospital would increase the bed capacity from 100 to 650 and the number of doctors from 10 to 100, the Minister said. He also assured to upgrade the Maripeda and Torrur hospitals. He alleged that the BJP government at the Centre had sanctioned a total of 157 medical colleges for several States, but not even one for Telangana.
