HYDERABAD

Working president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) K.T. Rama Rao along with former minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav on Friday visited the TIMS Hospital at Sanathnagar and enquired about the medical infrastructure and facilities.

Speaking during the visit, Mr. Rama Rao highlighted the vision behind the establishment of TIMS hospitals in Hyderabad. He stated that the then Telangana government under the leadership of K. Chandrasekhar Rao had established TIMS hospitals with the objective of providing world-class healthcare services to the people of Hyderabad and surrounding areas.

He recalled that in the past, government healthcare in Hyderabad was largely dependent on hospitals like Gandhi and Osmania, but during the BRS government’s tenure, modern multi-speciality TIMS hospitals were developed to offer advanced healthcare services comparable to premier healthcare institutions. “We envisioned and designed TIMS hospitals to provide AIIMS-level medical treatment for people,” Mr. Rama Rao said.

Explaining that 22 acres of land was utilised for the construction of the Sanathnagar TIMS Hospital, he said the facility was built with international standards and state-of-the-art medical technology. He stated that the previous BRS government had introduced TIMS hospitals to provide high-quality treatment to the poor and middle-class sections while saving them from the highly expensive corporate healthcare.

Stating that TIMS hospitals were established at Sanath Nagar, L.B. Nagar and Alwal to strengthen the public healthcare system in Hyderabad, he noted that a massive 2,000-bed government hospital was also being constructed in Warangal and that NIMS Hospital was also being expanded on a large scale and the works on them were commenced and completed to a large extent during the previous government itself.

Highlighting the infrastructure at Sanathnagar TIMS, Mr. Rama Rao said the hospital consists of three major blocks and includes 300 ICU beds for emergency and critical care services, 16 advanced operation theatres, all major diagnostic facilities including MRI and CT Scan services were being made available within the hospital. A dedicated ‘dharmashala’ (stay) facility was also arranged for attendants and family members of patients there.

On the importance given to local healthcare, he stated that the previous BRS government had established nearly 350 Basti Dawakhanas across Telangana to provide accessible healthcare services to the poor at the grass-roots level. He demanded that the present government immediately complete the remaining construction and operational works and make the hospital fully functional and accessible to the public at the earliest.