The State government has decided to set up 39 dialysis centres within two months in different government hospitals across the state for the benefit of kidney patients, Minister for Health P. Laxma Reddy said.
Speaking after inaugurating the 150-bedded Mother and Child Health Centre constructed at a cost of ₹20 crore in Karimnagar town on Thursday, he said that the government had invited the tenders for the setting up of necessary dialysis equipment at the government hospitals.
Expressing concern over the kidney patients suffering due to non-availability of dialysis centres in the districts and being forced to shell out huge amount in private hospitals and or for visiting Hyderabad, the Health Minister said that setting up of dialysis centres in all districts would come as a boon to patients.
ICU wards
The government had also decided to set up intensive care units (ICUs) in 20 hospitals in the state to provide corporate hospital treatment free of cost to the poor patients.
Already, the ICU centres were set up in Karimnagar, Siddipet, Adilabad and Mahabubnagar districts and the remaining 16 ICU wards would be opened very soon, he added.
Reiterating that the government was committed to fulfill the promise of setting up government medical college in Karimnagar district, he said that they had already set up medical colleges in Mahabubnagar and Siddipet.
The plans are afoot to set up government medical college in Karimnagar and Nalgonda districts very soon, Dr. Laxma Reddy maintained.
Hospital to be upgraded
The government headquarters hospital in Karimnagar would soon be upgraded into a super-speciality hospital, the Minister said and assured to set up MRI scan facility in the hospital. He said that the government was according top priority to providing quality medicare to the patients at all hospitals from PHCs to district headquarters hospital. He also assured to fill up all vacant posts in the Medical and Health Department.
Minister for Finance and Civil Supplies Eatala Rajender flayed former member of Parliament Ponnam Prabhakar for erecting vinyl posters across Karimnagar town claiming credit for getting the hospital.
“The hospital has not been built with Prabhakar’s own money. It is public money which was spent on the construction of hospital,” he said.
The State government was committed to set up medical college in Karimnagar town, Mr. Eatala said and added that the government had upgraded the Huzurabad and Jammikunta hospitals into 100 beds each and Kamalapur PHC into 30 beds hospital. Karimnagar legislator Gangula Kamalakar, Manakondur legislator Rasamayi Balakishan, Mayor S. Ravinder Singh, Collector Sarfaraz Ahmad and others were present.