Functioning of TS dialysis centres unmatched: Harish Rao
Ministers Harish Rao & Jagadish Reddy inaugurating the dialysis centre in Choutuppal on Tuesday
Yadadri-Bhongir: State Finance and Health Minister Harish Rao said that the functioning of dialysis centres in Telangana is unmatched anywhere else in the country.
On Tuesday, along with Minister Jagadish Reddy, he inaugurated a Dialysis Centre at Choutuppal of Munugodu constituency in Yadadri - Bhongir District.
Speaking on the occasion, the Minister mentioned that dialysis centres are God's gift to kidney patients. Seeing the treatment given by the Telangana government to kidney patients, CM Stalin also initiated setting up of dialysis centres in Tamil Nadu, he stressed.
He said that Telangana is the only state which provides bus passes and Aasara pensions to kidney patients. He informed that three dialysis centres which existed before the formation of Telangana have been increased to 102. He explained that they are spending up to one hundred crores for the maintenance of each dialysis centre.
He announced that a palliative centre for cancer patients will be set up in Choutuppal. In coming days, a 100-bed hospital will be opened in Munugodu constituency.
He alleged that the central government has not given even a single medical college to the state of Telangana. He said that 8 medical colleges were established in Telangana in one year and eight more colleges will be established next year.
He mentioned that the history of setting up medical colleges in Nalgonda and Suryapet districts belongs to CM KCR. He alleged that the state government had given land worth five crores to the Bibinagar for AIIMS hospital, but the centre had failed to provide minimum facilities to the MBBS students studying in that college.
District Collector Pamela Satpathi, MLA Kusukuntla Prabhakar Reddy, MP Lingaiah Yadav, Hospital Infrastructure Corporation Chairman Errolla Srinivas, Choutuppal Municipal Chairman Raju, and others participated in this programme.