In phrases of offering high quality well being care providers, Telangana is ranked third within the nation by NITI Aayog rankings

Hyderabad: The yr 2022 has been a landmark yr for presidency well being sector, cementing the place of Telangana among the many prime performing States within the Country.

Public well being sector in Telangana has witnessed main developments throughout a number of fronts, leading to enchancment of essential well being care indices like maternal and toddler mortality price, the annual well being care report 2022, launched for the primary time in Telangana on Sunday, stated.

In phrases of offering high quality well being care providers, Telangana is ranked third within the Country by NITI Aayog rankings.

Across a number of well being care indices like maternal mortality price, toddler mortality price, medical infrastructure, measures to regulate pointless C-sections, recruitment of manpower in all of the well being departments, Telangana has witnessed huge development in 2022, the report stated.

“Due to Chief Minister, K Chandrashekhar Rao’s vision, we have been able to lay a solid foundation of health sector in 2022, which will last for the next one to decade. There have been untoward incidents in government hospitals in Telangana and are not denying them. The only thing that we did is to learn from them and have to ensure that such incidents do not repeat in the future,” State Health Minister, T Harish Rao, whereas releasing the annual well being report on Sunday, stated.

Medical training

The Health Minister highlighted the large strides taken to strengthen medical training by recruiting school and increasing the pool of MBBS medical seats for deserving college students.

For the primary time, in 2022, the Telangana authorities had allotted a staggering Rs 11, 440 crore for growth of presidency well being and medical division.

In simply at some point, eight new Government medical colleges in Sangareddy, Mahabubabad, Mancherial, Jagtial, Wanaparthy, Kothagudem, Nagarkurnool and Ramagundam will be capable of provide 1200 medical seats for this educational yr.

The State Government incurred an expenditure of Rs. 4080 crore to develop the medical faculties, which for sure, added 1200 medical seats from this educational yr.