Hyderabad to get four new superspeciality hospitals

HYDERABAD: The state cabinet on Saturday approved four new superspeciality hospitals for Hyderabad. While the existing Covid-19 hospital, Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences (TIMS) in Gachibowli, will be converted into a multispeciality hospital, three new hospitals will be developed at Gaddiannaram fruit market premises, inside the premises of Chest Hospital in Erragaddaand another between Alwal and outer ring road in Medchal-Malkajgiri district.
The cabinet also ratified the decision taken by the government to develop the hospitals and modernise the existing vegetable market atKothapet and convert it into an integrated vegetarian and non-vegetarian market at its meeting here.
According to the CMO, the idea of the government is that all the corners should have state-run multi-speciality hospitals. As of now, all the major hospitals such as Gandhi Hospital and Osmania General Hospital are located in city core area and people from various parts of the city face problemsto reach these hospitals.
Meanwhile, the cabinet instructed the officials to relaunch the sheep distribution scheme. It also instructed the officials to take measures to set up modern salons in the villages as decided earlier for the benefit of Nayi Brahmins.
Agriculture department officials told the cabinet that paddyyieldlast yearwas more than three crore tonnes. The marketing department said the government had procured 1.4 crore tonnes of paddy last year, traders purchased 1.6 crore tonnes and the rest was used by people for their own needs. So far this season, the rainfall was more than 60 per cent than the normal rainfall and the rainfall was more than 5 per cent when compared to the last year, the agriculture department officials said.
“So far, Rs 5,145 crore has already been deposited in the farmers’ accounts under Rythu Bandhu scheme,” the officials said. The cabinet also instructed that measures should be taken to ensure that toddy tappers get the insurance immediately, release of exgratia amount to toddy tappers and fisheries workers and to release funds to the MBC Corporation for the benefit of other hereditary professions.
The cabinet said officials should pay insurance to hereditary professions quickly and also asked the officials to take measures to pay handloom workers insurance.