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No misdeeds in radiation machine purchase: Minister
Medical and Health Minister C Laxma Reddy has dismissed allegations of irregularities in the purchase of radiation machine in the MNJ Institute of Oncology and Regional Cancer Centre here.
Hyderabad: Medical and Health Minister C Laxma Reddy has dismissed allegations of irregularities in the purchase of radiation machine in the MNJ Institute of Oncology and Regional Cancer Centre here.
Replying to a question in the Assembly on Tuesday on organ transplantation, Laxma Reddy said that a latest version of radiation machine had been purchased at a cost of Rs 14.51 crore and not at Rs 20 crore as was being alleged by opposition parties.
The Minister clarified that the hospital had obtained permission from the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board for the purchase of the machine in July, 2015 and no irregularities in purchase had taken place.
Laxma Reddy said that soon works on the construction of the proposed Nephrology Towers would be taken up in NIMS. He asserted that conditions in government hospitals were improving and even organ transplantations were being taken up successfully in Osmania, Gandhi and NIMS.
Besides, steps had been taken to modernise all existing hospitals to carry out specialised surgeries, he said. The Minister told the House that Telangana was the first State in the country where heart transplantation had been carried out in a government hospital.
The Minister clarified that the government had already started roping in specialist surgeons to work in government hospitals by offering them high remuneration so as to deliver corporate standard medical services in government-run hospitals.
At the same time, specialist doctors in various government hospitals had been encouraged to put their skills to use, he added.
Presently, cadaver organ transplantation was taking place in government-run hospitals. Steps were being to modernise the facilities so that organ transplantations like those of liver and kidney could be carried out with live organ donors, he said.
