Land to be identified for 4 hospitals in Hyderabad.

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao directed the officials to identify land required for establishing four new 1,000-bedded hospitals in the city.

The new hospitals are supposed to come up in Uppal-L.B. Nagar, Malakajgiri-Cantonment, Qutbullapur-Kukatpally and Serilingampally-Rajendra Nagar areas. The new ones, along with Osmania, Gandhi and King Kothi hospitals, would have women and childcare facilities.

The Chief Minister issued the directions at a review meeting held here on Saturday. He asked the officials to prepare plans to upgrade King Kothi Hospital into 1,000-bed multi-speciality facility.

Further, he told the officials to construct a new building for women and childcare on the MGM hospital premises in Warangal and another multi-speciality hospital linked to Kaloji Health University there.

The health university, medical college and multi-speciality hospital would all come up on the central jail land in Warangal since the jail was being shifted out. New buildings would also be constructed for Karimnagar, Khammam and Suryapet hospitals by upgrading them.

The upgraded and new hospitals would have mechanised laundry facility so that proper hygiene was maintained. The government had plans to have magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computerised tomography (CT), ultrasound (USG) and mammography scan facilities at 40 places, including at four places in every district, the Chief Minister said.

THE HINDU