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Fund crunch ails hospitals
The upgradation of hospitals in Telangana is yet to be taken up as the health department is suffering from lack of funds since the formation of new State.
NOT IN THE PINK OF HEALTH
- Ministerial sub-committee fails to hammer out a solution to repayment of loan
- About `1,900 crore allotted to upgradation of govt medical colleges
Hyderabad: The upgradation of hospitals in Telangana is yet to be taken up as the health department is suffering from lack of funds since the formation of new State. According to an official of health department, the Telangana State government has come out with an ambitious plan to strengthen all the hospitals from primary health centre to tertiary health care centres with an outlay of around Rs 5,500 crore.
A sub-committee consisting of ministers comprising IT and Panchayat Raj Minister K Taraka Rama Rao, Roads and Buildings Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao and Minister for Health Dr C Laxma Reddy met twice in October to discuss the reforms and upgradation of hospitals in Telangana.
However the meetings ended inconclusively. A senior official said that the committee mooted pool funds by NABARD and other funding national and international agencies. The committee was in a bind over the repayment of the loan. It was felt that the upgraded hospital would run like autonomous NIMS hospital so that it could generate revenue for self sustaining. However, such an idea would have to face public wrath, said an official.
Around Rs 1,900 crore has been earmarked for upgrading government medical colleges in Telangana. In addition, the department has also proposed five teaching hospitals in five districts at an estimated cost of Rs1, 040 crore. Besides, about 50 hospitals under the Telangana Vaidya Vidhana Parishad (TVVP) would be upgraded with Rs 949 crore. The 248 hospitals, which are under the Director of Public Health, would be upgraded to 30 beds with Rs 1,612 crore.
Suggesting a solution to tide over the fund crunch for upgradation of hospitals, NIMS former Director Dr Raja Reddy said that around 90 per cent of the procedures in Aarogyasri Scheme would have to be done in government hospitals by providing infrastructure that would save around Rs 800 crore per year.
Regarding the human resource for hospitals, Indian Medical Association, Telangana president, Dr Shyamsunder said that there was around 41,000 registered doctors in Telangana State and thousands of staff nurses and paramedical staff working in private sector. They would leave their private jobs once the government calls for recruitment, he said.
