Basti Dawakhanas offer quality healthcare to poor: Harish Rao

Hyderabad, Aug.25 (Maxim News): Minister for Health T Harish Rao said that the State government had set up the Basti Dawakhanas (Urban Health Centres) aimed at providing quality healthcare to the poor.

Minister Harish Rao said that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has realised the need to provide quality health care services to urban poor and introduced the concept of Basthi Dawakhanas.

Right now, there are 390 Basthi Dawakhanas across Telangana out of which 259 such health care facilities are located in Hyderabad. Recently, the 15 th Finance Commission appreciated the concept of Basthi Dawakhanas, which provide quality health care facilities to people in urban slum settlements, Harish Rao said.

Inaugurating a new administrative building of the Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH), Rajendra Nagar here on Thursday, the Health Minister said that the Chief Minister had realised the importance of supporting institutions that are dedicated to public health. In 2015, he allocated 45 acres of land at Rajendranagar and Rs. 10 crore for the development of a reputed public health care institute like IIPH in Hyderabad.

Harish Rao said that as the TRS government has been strengthening the public health care system for the last few years by allocating crores of rupees, the number of Malaria and dengue cases are coming down drastically in Telangana and with the launch of Basti Dawakhanas, the people are getting quality healthcare at their doorsteps.

Stating that Telangana stands at the third place in the country in terms of allocating more budget for the public health system, he said the State government was setting up a medical college and one nursing college in each district across the Telangana, besides the construction of another six super speciality hospitals.

Harish Rao also found fault with the BJP union government at the Centre for giving the least priority to the health sector and said that its budget allocation for the public health was only 1.1 percent in the current financial year.

MLA Prakash Goud, Government Advisor Rajeev Sharma, IIPH president Srinadh Reddy and others were present. (Maxim News)


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