No Dialysis Centers Like in Telangana Anywhere: Harish Rao

Hyderabad, Jan 3 (Maxim News): Minister for Medical, Health and Family Welfare and Finance, T. Harish Rao claimed that dialysis centers that have been set up by the Telangana government are not found anywhere else in the country. He made this comment while inaugurating a Dialysis Center at Choutuppal Government Hospital in Munugode Constituency of Yadadri district along with the Minister for Energy, Jagadish Reddy, today.

Speaking on this occasion, Harish Rao claimed, after seeing the treatment given by the Telangana government to kidney patients, he claimed that the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Stalin also revealed that he is setting up dialysis centers in Tamil Nadu. He said that Telangana is the only state which provides bus passes and support pensions to kidney patients. It has been clarified that the three dialysis centers 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 center. It was also announced that the palliative center for cancer patients will be set up in Chaout Uppal in the coming days, and a 100-bed hospital will be opened in the Munugode 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 said that the credit for setting up medical colleges in Nalgonda and Suryapet goes to Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao.

He alleged that the land worth Rs. five crores was given to the Central government at Bibinagar for AIIMS hospital, but the center had failed to provide minimum facilities to the MBBS students there.

MP Lingaya Yadav, MLA Kusukuntla Prabhakar Reddy, Hospital Infrastructure Corporation Chairman e.Srinivas, Choutuppal Municipal Chairman Raju, Collector Pamela Satpathy, and others participated in this program. (Maxim News)

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