Steps initiated to deploy eight MRI and CT machines each by end of March 2026: Telangana Health Minister

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A technician operating the CT Scan instrumentality   astatine  Osmania General Hospital successful  Hyderabad. File

A technician operating the CT Scan instrumentality astatine Osmania General Hospital successful Hyderabad. File | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL

Telangana Government has accelerated steps to deploy infrastructure and instrumentality successful the Government tally hospitals and aesculapian institutions successful a large way.

Health Minister Damodar Rajanarsimha told the Legislative Assembly that 485 caller ventilators worthy ₹58 crore were nether procurement and they would beryllium installed successful antithetic hospitals earlier February end. The Government made appraisal of requisite instrumentality successful tertiary hospitals successful enactment with the norms of National Medical Council and they were nether procurement stage.

Eight caller MRI machines

Accordingly, steps were initiated to procure 8 caller MRI machines with ₹192 crore for installation successful six antithetic hospitals crossed the State successful summation to Osmania and Gandhi hospitals earlier the fiscal twelvemonth end. Eight CT machines worthy ₹60 crore were besides scheduled for installation by the aforesaid period. An further LINAC instrumentality worthy ₹32 crore for attraction of crab patients and Brachytherapy machines worthy ₹8 crore were nether procurement for NIMS wherever instrumentality worthy ₹18 crore had been installed successful the neurosurgery section successful 2025. This was successful summation to 15 ventilators which were nether procurement stage.

Replying to queries during the Question Hour successful Assembly connected Monday (January 5, 2026), helium said determination were 38,000 beds successful the Government tally institutions crossed the State and putting successful spot indispensable instrumentality successful these hospitals was being taken up connected priority. The Government had identified 15 equipments for deployment successful antithetic hospitals depending connected the unit connected them.

The Government had deployed respective ambulances successful antithetic areas successful the past 2 years bringing down the exigency effect clip from 16 minutes to 11. Steps similar acquisition of further ambulances had been initiated to spot that the effect clip comes to beneath 10 minutes. The Government astatine the aforesaid clip was promoting referral strategy to guarantee that 90% of the cases were treated astatine the territory level itself.

73 dialysis centres successful summation to 105

The Government had sanctioned 73 much dialysis centres successful antithetic parts of the State successful summation to the 105 functioning astatine contiguous to spot that region betwixt 2 dialysis centres was little than 25 km.

Published - January 05, 2026 04:15 p.m. IST

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