Harish slams Congress over claims about TS healthcare

Health minister Harish Rao on Thursday said Congress leaders criticising healthcare and medical facilities in Telangana are being blind to the development the healthcare sector has witnessed in the state under TRS’ eight-year leadership.

“Having done nothing to improve hospitals, or set up new ones, Congress leader Geeta Reddy and the party’s MLA Jagga Reddy appear to have turned blind to the improvement in the systems under the TRS rule,” Rao said.

The minister was speaking to the media after an inspection, along with minister Talasani Srinivas, of the 50-bed government hospital at Ameerpet. He said it was unfortunate that Geeta Reddy, being a doctor, chose to speak ill of the medicare in the state. “This even as the TRS government has done to improve hospitals and patient services.”

“Jagga Reddy had gone to the Sangareddy government hospital and praised the services there as also the setting up of a medical college in that district,” he said.

He said, “KCR visited Gandhi Hospital at the peak of the Covid-19 spread to boost the morale of the doctors and health workers in the state, and had also released `200 crore for the Osmania General Hospital. There was criticism when he visited clinics in Delhi. Wherever there are good things, we can see those and initiate them here too. We will.”

“The Congress, he said, did not set up medical colleges across districts as the TRS government is doing now. In 70 years after Independence, there were three medical colleges, while we have set up 33 in just seven years,” he said.