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Minister for Health Satya Kumar Yadav connected Friday (January 09, 2026) said that 60–70 per cent of patients had expressed restitution with the services provided astatine Government General Hospitals successful the State, according to nationalist feedback collected successful December 2025. He urged the officials acrophobic to absorption connected eliminating the remaining 30–40 per cent negativity.
Speaking astatine a marathon State-level reappraisal gathering with Superintendents of Government teaching hospitals and Principals and administrators of aesculapian colleges, the Minister warned that absenteeism connected the portion of doctors would not beryllium tolerated and that year-long unauthorised lack whitethorn pb to removal from service. He said doctors refusing to instrumentality up postings and delaying responsibilities volition beryllium surrendered to the Directorate of Medical Education (DME) and disciplinary enactment volition follow. “Notices volition beryllium issued connected wherefore specified persons should not beryllium removed from service,” helium warned.
The Minister said that summation successful numbers of out-patients and in-patients reflected nationalist trust, but further betterment was inactive needed and urged doctors and unit to service patients with compassion and assistance the authorities execute the extremity of a steadfast Andhra Pradesh.
He said attendance of doctors and unit had improved by implicit 8 per cent successful the past 19 months, but “service prime cannot beryllium judged lone by attendance. Patient experiences and opinions are crucial,” helium stressed.
Stress connected prime aesculapian education
The Minister said that authorities aesculapian colleges indispensable supply high-standard aesculapian acquisition to nutrient fantabulous doctors. They should enactment successful NIRF ranking, measure teaching unit regularly, and invitation experts from prestigious institutes crossed the state to bid students, helium added.
Health Secretary Saurabh Gaur said that systems were being acceptable up to show hospitals and doctors successful existent clip utilizing technology. Under Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu’s “continuous care” principle, integrated services crossed primary, secondary, and tertiary hospitals would beryllium ensured without barriers, helium added.
Sharing accusation connected the show of the GGHs successful December, Mr. Gaur said that hospitals had recorded 44 per cent maturation successful presumption of Out-Patients visits, 40 per cent summation successful surgeries and diagnostic tests had accrued by 150 per cent. In OP services, Visakhapatnam, Anantapur, and Vijayawada stood successful the apical 3 positions, exceeding targets by implicit 100 per cent, portion Nellore, Machilipatnam, and Eluru were astatine the bottom. In surgeries, Vijayawada, Machilipatnam, and Ongole ranked apical three, portion Guntur, Kadapa, and Paderu were astatine the bottom, helium said.
NTR Health University Vice-Chancellor Chandrasekhar said efforts were being made to summation absorption connected probe successful aesculapian colleges.
Director of Medical Education Raghunandan and others attended the gathering which discussed infirmary sanitation and strict monitoring of cleaning agencies, information unit auditing, maintaining standards successful diligent food, prevention of corruption, technological budgeting for escaped cause procurement, unusually precocious post-Covid oxygen usage successful immoderate hospitals, and ways to trim expenditure connected biomedical instrumentality done due procurement and maintenance.
