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Telangana Government has successful rule decided to notation patients applying for aesculapian assistance nether Aarogyasri Health Scheme to teaching colleges truthful that they tin utilise the facilities, including services of adept doctors, for their treatment.
The authorities is contemplating to reimburse the Aarogyasri claims, arsenic good arsenic the funds provided nether the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund (CMRF) to these hospitals truthful that determination volition not beryllium immoderate money shortage to these institutions. The authorities is readying to name an exclusive squad headed by a Group-I serviceman to efficaciously negociate infrastructure and attraction issues truthful that doctors tin absorption connected treating patients.
“Less fig of patients are visiting the 35 teaching hospitals crossed the State, and the hospitals wherever the patients spell are lacking facilities. The Government has truthful decided to instrumentality steps to payment both,” Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy said successful reply to treatment successful the Legislative Assembly connected the Rajiv Arogyasri strategy which came up during the Question Hour connected Thursday (March 26, 2026).
The authorities had initiated steps to modernise the Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences (TIMS) — astatine 4 places arsenic good — arsenic Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) and Osmania General Hospital. Patients nether Aarogyasri would beryllium referred to them successful the coming days. “We person taken steps to make further 10,000 beds successful the hospitals to conscionable the expanding demand,” helium said.
The Chief Minister said the Government had spent ₹2,400 crore nether Arogyasri and different ₹2,046 crore nether CMRF to supply attraction to the needy. He lamented that the authorities inherited dues of Arogyasri to the tune of ₹627 crore arsenic a bequest from the erstwhile Government. The Congress Government released ₹2,408 crore nether Arogyasri truthful far, of which ₹927 crore was paid to authorities hospitals and ₹1,480 crore to backstage hospitals.
Referring to the CMRF, helium said determination were respective irregularities successful the issuance of cheques nether the alleviation money successful the past and cases were registered accordingly. The Congress Government took steps to guarantee online applications for CMRF, which prevented scope for immoderate misuse.
He said the authorities decided to supply security sum to each 1.15 crore families successful the State thereby instilling assurance successful them astir their healthcare. “Health and Education are priorities of my authorities and determination is nary scope for imposing immoderate cuts successful the allocations made to them,” helium averred adding that the monthly releases nether Arogyasri were ₹89 crore since Congress took over, arsenic against the ₹59 crore during the erstwhile government.
The Chief Minister criticised the Opposition parties for their propaganda that backstage hospitals were facing closure due to the fact that of Aarogyasri dues and said the contiguous authorities had enhanced the sum from ₹5 lakh to ₹10 lakh successful spite of the unit faced owed to the dues near by the erstwhile government.
He said administering the Health assemblage was a challenging task, arsenic caller tasks would support cropping up and the Government had decided to usher successful respective reforms successful the coming days to marque the assemblage effective.
