The Telangana CM laid the foundation stones for three Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences (TIMS) super-speciality hospitals in the city today.
Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao laid the foundation stones for three Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences (TIMS) super-speciality hospitals in the city today.
The hospitals will be built in Kothapet, Erragadda and Alwal, at an estimated cost of Rs. 2,679 crore.
The facility in Alwal is spread over 28.41 acres and will be built as a G+5 structure with Rs. 897 crore, the one in Kothapet will be built on 21.36 acres at an estimated cost of Rs. 900 crore in a G+14 structure, and the facility in Erragadda will be built on 60 acres at an estimated cost of Rs 882 crore in a G+14 structure.
Each hospital will have 1,000 beds to provide specialty and super-specialty patient care services.
In addition to this, on the lines of the All-India Institute Of Medical Sciences, medical education in speciality & super-specialty courses will be provided at the three hospitals along with nursing and para-medical courses.
Once the three TIMS are inaugurated, Hyderabad will have hospitals on all four sides, as a TIMS is already operational in Gachibowli.
Speaking on the occasion, Health Minister T Harish Rao said that KCR had taken up this prestigious task keeping in mind the healthcare needs of the next 50 years.
After the outbreak of Covid, diseases related to the heart and the kidney, and cancer, were steadily increasing, and the poor were not in a position to afford the costly medication in private hospitals. The CM, keeping that in mind, had decided to build the three hospitals, Rao said.
Rao also claimed that there were only five medical colleges at the time of the State's formation, and that during the last eight years, the number had gone up to 17. In the next two years all 33 districts in Telangana would have at least one medical college, he said.
Ministers Mahmood Ali, Sabitha Indra Reddy, Talasani Srinivas Yadav, Malla Reddy and Vemula Prashanth Reddy; MLAs Maganti Gopinath, Sudheer Reddy, Kaleru Venkatesh and Sayanna; MP Keshava Rao, GHMC Mayor Gadwal Vijayalakshmi, senior officials from various departments and other elected representatives were present.