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Telangana CM Wants State Healthcare System to Become Role Model for India

In a significant drive to empower citizens with convenient access to healthcare, the Telangana government since inception in 2014 has launched several world-class programs and healthcare measures. It has also strengthened the public health care system and hospitals in a big way. Chief Minister of Telangana K Chandrashekhar Rao wants the state to become a role model in public health in the country. It has ushered a paradigm shift in the healthcare by making facilities more accessible, with benefits reaching the BPL families and lower income group people. The government has also introduced digital solutions to stop corruption and malpractices in public life.

The state government has established healthcare centers comprising of Primary Health Centers, Community Health Centers, Area Hospitals, District Hospitals and Specialized Centers in the Cities which are all listed digitally and networked for optimum service to poor. “Providing healthcare is the committed endeavor of Telangana government, particularly the BPL, low income groups and in remote areas” says Hon’ble Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao. Mostly prominent is issue of health cards for suffering sections of society – government employees, pensioners, journalists etc. covering over 900 diseases providing cash free treatment in government hospitals. So, for 1,135,702 health card issued government, has decided to set up wellness centers in 14 super-specialty Hospitals.

The government has earmarked ₹7375.20 crore in the 2018-19 budget to provide better medical services and amenities, in existing government hospitals. Similarly, during 2014-15, ₹4062 crores, during 2015-16 ₹5024 crores, during 2016-17 ₹5992 crores and during 2017-18 ₹5976 crores were allocated. Revolutionary reforms were brought in the maintenance of Government hospitals. Towards maintenance of a single bed in the government hospitals on an average ₹5016 is being incurred monthly. Daily a different color bed sheet is being used in the government hospitals to maintain hygiene accordingly 60000 bed sheets were procured in four different colors at a cost of ₹2.63 crores. In all the 42 area hospitals across the state new mattresses, bed sheets and saline stands were provided. Telangana government has designed a beautiful health checkup scheme and also promoted diagnostic tests for everyone in every village on a regular basis as prevention is better than cure.

It is the agenda of the government to conduct diagnostic tests, steps to spread of the disease and also protect people from acquiring diseases. The government has decided to organize eye camps all over the state on a large scale and provide free of cost spectacle s to the needy. The Chief Minister of Telangana has suggested that besides the eye specialists in the state if need be, services of eye specialists from other state should be sought in government has decided to give ₹1000 pension per month from this financial year to the patients suffering with lymphatic filariasis (Filaria) benefiting 47,000 people. KCR Kits Scheme aimed at the wellbeing of mother and child and has been unveiled in Telagnana for poor pregnant women to give nutritious food and to take care of the new born after delivery. – Millennium Post

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