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Congress workers play cricket at empty site proposed for construction of super-speciality hospital | Hyderabad News
HYDERABAD: Congress members, including AICC programmes implementation committee chairman Alleti Maheshwar Reddy, working president Anjan Kumar Yadav among others, visited the former Kothapet fruit market in Telangana capital Hyderabad site where the state government had promised to construct Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences Super Speciality Hospital.
Men and women leaders of the Congress went around the empty site, played cricket, planted a sapling and organised other programmes to highlight the fact that not a brick has been moved for the construction of the hospital nine months after the foundation stone was laid by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao in April 2022.
Reddy said the visit to the proposed super speciality hospital site at Kothapet was organised to expose how health minister T Harish Rao has misled the people of Telangana by presenting a rosy picture of the medical and health sector in the state.
Reddy alleged that health and medical sectors have been neglected in the state with CM K Chandrashekar Rao failing to implement many of his 2014 and 2018-election campaign promises such as setting up a 100-bed area hospital in every assembly constituency, a super speciality hospital in every district on the lines of NIMS.
He said hundreds of posts of doctors and nurses are lying vacant in government hospitals.
There is a shortage of medicines in government hospitals due to which people are forced to spend from pocket to buy medicines from private medical shops.
“The KCR-government is spending only 4.4 per cent of its total annual budget on the health sector as against the national recommendations of 8 percent. The BRS government has done away even with the mandatory rule that doctors should stay locally, and it resulted in the non-availability of doctors in rural areas,” he added.
Men and women leaders of the Congress went around the empty site, played cricket, planted a sapling and organised other programmes to highlight the fact that not a brick has been moved for the construction of the hospital nine months after the foundation stone was laid by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao in April 2022.
Reddy said the visit to the proposed super speciality hospital site at Kothapet was organised to expose how health minister T Harish Rao has misled the people of Telangana by presenting a rosy picture of the medical and health sector in the state.
Reddy alleged that health and medical sectors have been neglected in the state with CM K Chandrashekar Rao failing to implement many of his 2014 and 2018-election campaign promises such as setting up a 100-bed area hospital in every assembly constituency, a super speciality hospital in every district on the lines of NIMS.
He said hundreds of posts of doctors and nurses are lying vacant in government hospitals.
There is a shortage of medicines in government hospitals due to which people are forced to spend from pocket to buy medicines from private medical shops.
“The KCR-government is spending only 4.4 per cent of its total annual budget on the health sector as against the national recommendations of 8 percent. The BRS government has done away even with the mandatory rule that doctors should stay locally, and it resulted in the non-availability of doctors in rural areas,” he added.
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