The Telangana unit of the Congress, which had previously explicitly stated that the negligence of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao was at the
root of the deteriorating condition of the Osmania General Hospital (OGH), today lashed out the KCR regime over the issue again.
TPCC chief N Uttam Kumar Reddy demanded that the state government construct a new building for the OGH in the vacant seven-acre lot on the premises of the hospital without "disturbing" the existing heritage building immediately.
In a media statement, he said, "The TRS government should give a grant of Rs 1,000 crore for the new OGH building so that it can be equipped with modern medical facilities. The historic healthcare facility should be developed into a multi-super specialty hospital. It is absurd that the hospital, a popular healthcare destination for all Indians, was not included in the list of the three new multi-super specialty hospitals that the government is proposing to develop. This oversight needs to be addressed."
He then claimed that the CM, who had "not visited Hyderabad's Old City area even once since 2014", had blatantly ignored the Congress' repeated pleas for the new hospital wing for the past few years.
The leader added that he had visited the OGH in July last year along with veteran Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao and Nampally party in-charge Feroze Khan to examine the issues being faced by the patients getting treated at the facility and to take stock of the medical services available there.
"Developing the OGH will broaden access to quality healthcare services for Telangana's poor," Reddy asserted.