Clinical establishment law to rein in private hospitals: Telangana minister T Harish Rao

Hyderabad: Telangana will come up with a clinical establishment law soon to regulate private hospitals in the state, health minister T Harish Rao has said. As of now, the state government has no control over private hospitals and there are complaints on the abnormal charges being collected by them for services they offer, he added.

Speaking on health and irrigation departments’ demands for grants in the budget in the assembly on Saturday, the minister said the government was giving top priority for health sector, especially improving infrastructure for the past few years, and the idea was to see people utilise medical services at government hospitals. He asserted that the state government has no intention to discontinue Aarogya Sri services in the state.

Harish Rao said efforts were being made to improve health infrastructure in the state. “Every district will have a medical college and super speciality hospital,” he added.

“If four Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences (TIMS) in the city, Warangal Health City and Nims expansion works are completed, there will be 10,000 super speciality beds in the state. If these beds are made available to the poor, the poor need not go to corporate hospitals for treatment,” the health minister said.

On AIIMS Bibinagar, the minister said Union minister G Kishan Reddy praises AIIMS in the state, but the Centre had completely ignored the hospital and did not provide any facilities, including operation theatres and basic facilities for medical students. He explained the measures being taken up to fill up vacancies and providing facilities at hospitals.

Harish Rao announced that children of Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) employees would be given reservations in the medical colleges being constructed in Ramagundam.

The college would be named Singareni and a special ward would be set up for the coal workers, he said.