Additional 141 Basti Dawakhanas in GHMC limits: Health Minister

Hyderabad: Health Minister Eatala Rajender on Friday said that the government would be starting 141 new Basti Dawakhanas in the limits of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.

The minster was replying to a question raised by TRS member KP Vivekanand during the Question Hour in the Assembly. He said that the government so far set up 106 Basti Dawakhanas in the city.

The government, after overseeing the functioning of the primary health centres in New Delhi, decided to implement in the city and it has been serving the needs of the people, he said.

staff nurse, health assistant and other personnel. These works like the urban primary health centres and it has 270 types of medicines and offer 150 types of tests at Institute of Preventive Medicine.

The minister said that so far 7.1 lakh outpatients have been registered in the Basti Dawakhanas.

All the PHCs have been lined with IPM-Telangana diagnostics and on an average 110 patients are coming to the diagnostic centres.