Hyderabad: The Hon’ble Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao said that implementation of KCR Kits and betterment in the government hospitals has increased the people’s faith in the hospitals and there is a need to preserve this faith. Since a lot of priority is given to the public health, Medical and Health Department would need more funds. The Chief Minister wanted estimates to be done for the ongoing programmes and schemes and also for the programmes to be implemented in future and they should be sent for the budget allocation in the next financial year. The Chief Minister further announced that in 2018-19 Budget, more funds would be allocated to the medical and the health. The Chief Minister said, as on date more funds are allocated for the Irrigation projects, once the projects are over more allocations would be given to the medical, health and education, that the key sectors needed more for the poor people.
The Chief Minister inaugurated 102 Services on Wednesday at Necklace road. Later he inaugurated 50-bedded hospital in Toopran in Gajwel Assembly Constituency. The Chief Minister also visited the 100-bedded-hospital being constructed at Gajwel and supervised the works. On the occasion, the chief minister spoke with Medical and Health Minister Laxma Reddy, MP Prabhakar Reddy, Deputy Speaker Ms Padma Devender Reddy, Principal Secretary (Medical and Health) Ms Shanti Kumari, Medical and Health Director Ms Vakati Karuna, Medak and Siddipet Collectors and Medical and Health officials.
That, “In the past, public health was neglected. The rich are able to get treatment from the corporate hospitals but for the poor they have only the government hospitals. Consequently the Telangana State government has given top priority to offer better services to the people, the Facilities have been increased in all the government hospitals 108, 102 and 104 services were bettered. Prestigious KCR Kits programme is implemented successfully. Besides the commitment of the government, doctors and other staff are also offering dedicated services. With this, people’s faith and confidence in the government hospitals has increased. There is a substantial increase in the patients that are coming to the government hospitals. The Medical and Health department’s action plan should reflect the confidence reposed by the people. The situation should be bettered than the existing one but should not be lowered. The government is ready to increase the budget for the medical and health and in the next Budget, allocation funds would be increased. As on date, we are spending more funds for the irrigation projects to supply water to the farm sector. After the irrigation sector, the government’s priority would be health and education sectors. In future we will allocate more funds for these two sectors. There is no other priority other than giving better education and good health services to the poor. Officials should bear this in mind and prepare action plans and estimates for the ongoing and future needs. The government would accordingly allocate the funds. We are getting good results by the decentralization of the hospital administration. That the Hospitals Superintendents should be entrusted with the responsibility of the administration and they should be directly given the funds,” the Chief Minister said.
