TSRTC hospital for Covid cases

The TSRTC will soon be converting its multi-specialty hospital here for special Covid-care and would receive such patients. All its 200 beds are being equipped with oxygen lines while the work is on for the setting up of a 15-bed ICU.

Employees of the Telangana State Road Transportation and their dependents are eligible to receive treatment for

Covid-19 at this facility.

Some transport employees have complained that the general services at the hospital, in Tarnaka in the city, are not satisfactory. "The hospital lacks facilities and many are denied admission. Inpatients are forced to buy medicines from outside the hospital as the pharmacy inside keeps saying several drugs are out of stock.”

Kamalakar Goud, leader of the RTC employees’ union, said, “There is staff-shortage and several facilities are lacking. There are complaints from patients about insufficient attention from the staff.” Laxmi, a conductor, said there was a lack of doctors.

RTC’s chief medical officer Dr Venkataramana said these complaints are baseless. “There, though, are issues about availability of some medicines in the pharmacy. This is because of the pandemic situation.” He said the multi-specialty hospital, post bifurcation of APSRTC, has 28 doctors. “In addition, we have 16 more doctors posted at 14 dispensaries across the state.”

The RTC, he said, refers serious cases to 23 super specialty hospitals, while employees can get tests done at three diagnostic centers. In many cases, the corporation met the expenses for the heart, kidney and liver transplants, he said.