KCR's Maiden Visit To Gandhi Hospital After Covid Break-Out

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao today paid his maiden visit to Gandhi Hospital after the deadly Covid-19 pandemic hit the state.

The main objectives of the visit of the CM were to examine the treatment for Covid being given at the hospital and to instill confidence among those undergoing treatment there.

For about an hour in the afternoon, the CM went around the wards and inquired with the patients about the treatment being given to them. He went around the Covid-19 emergency ward, the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), the outpatient wards and the general wards where Covid patients are being treated. He spoke with several individual patients, inquiring about their personal details as well as their well-being. He spoke words of solace and courage, and assured them that he was there for them. He also inquired with them about the quality of the food being supplied to them.

The CM responded quickly to some of the problems raised by the patients, giving spot instructions to the medical officers there.

The CM also interacted with the senior doctors, contract nurses and junior doctors. He complimented them for the services they were offering putting their own lives at risk. He said that as young doctors they needed to stand by the people in these turbulent times, and that the government would work hard to solve any problems they were facing. He instructed the health officials to send proposals to immediately solve the problems of the junior doctors and nurses.

"In these difficult times you are doing a great job by standing with the people. Continue these services. In case you have any problem or difficulty, please contact me directly. I will extend all possible cooperation to you," the CM told the health workers.

In the backdrop of the state government's decision to set up oxygen plants in all the government hospitals, the CM examined the oxygen plant set up at the hospital. This plant was set up recently upon the instructions of the CM to supply 2,000 litres of oxygen per minute. He examined the plant and asked hospital Superintendent Dr Raja Rao how it worked and for the details of the purity of oxygen it generated.

Minister T Harish Rao, Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar, Principal Secretary (Medical and Health) S A M Rizvi, CM's Secretary and Special Officer (Covid) Rajasekhar Reddy, CM's OSD Gangadhar, Gandhi Hospital Superintendent Dr Raja Rao, DME Ramesh Reddy, Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar and others participated.