TIMS hospitals will be fully operational by June 2, says Chief Minister

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and Health Minister Damodar Rajanarsimha at a meeting in Hyderabad on Thursday.

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has directed officials to ensure that the TIMS hospitals at Alwal and LB Nagar, Warangal Super Speciality Hospital and the expansion works at NIMS are completed by June 2 next year and made fully operational.

He also set December 2027 as the deadline for completing the construction of the new Osmania General Hospital and making it available to the public.

At a review meeting on the Medical and Health Department on Thursday, the Chief Minister called for a unified recruitment policy for the three TIMS hospitals at Sanathnagar, Alwal and LB Nagar, enabling doctors and other personnel to be transferred between them depending on the requirements of medical services.

He suggested outsourcing housekeeping and hospital maintenance staff and said Group-I officers would be appointed to supervise the functioning of TIMS hospitals. Retired military officers would be engaged to monitor housekeeping operations.

The Chief Minister directed officials to make full use of the Sanathnagar TIMS hospital to ease the workload at NIMS, particularly when beds were unavailable or surgeries were getting delayed at the latter institution.

Until regular recruitment at TIMS hospitals was completed, doctors could be hired from outside, with the government releasing the required funds immediately, he said.

Mr. Revanth Reddy also directed officials to complete the construction of 79 additional dialysis centres at the earliest, noting that 16 new centres had already been established since the Congress government assumed office.

Officials informed him that the number of beds in government hospitals had increased from 30,000 to 38,000 during the period. The number of outpatients had risen from seven crore to nine crore, while inpatients had increased from 23 lakh to 24.30 lakh. He said the average allocation for the health sector in the State budget had increased from 3.9% in the past to 4.8% over the last three years.

The government had completed 13,401 appointments of doctors, nurses, ANMs and paramedical personnel during the period, while recruitment for another 5,640 posts was underway, he said. Health Minister Damodar Rajanarsimha and MP Vem Narender Reddy were among present.