Telangana aims to double health expenditure to build an equitable care system by 2047, says Health Minister

Health Minister C. Damodar Raja Narasimha said the State aims to treble its wellness expenditure from the contiguous 4% of its Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) to 8% by 2047, successful enactment with planetary high-performing economies. Improved wellness outcomes straight lend to productivity, economical maturation and societal resilience, helium said, adding that these factors are cardinal to Telangana’s aspiration to go a $3-trillion system by 2047.

The Minister was delivering the keynote code astatine the healthcare sheet treatment connected ‘Accessible, Affordable and Equitable Healthcare for All’.

The Minister said that healthcare accessibility successful Telangana is being expanded done a strengthened three-tier structure. 

“Telangana has established 5,023 Ayushman Arogya Mandirs (AAMs) offering services that see maternal care, screening for non-communicable diseases and intelligence wellness support,” said the Minister listing different achievements. A web of 184 Telangana Vaidya Vidhana Parishad (TVVP) hospitals is serving arsenic a referral strategy for specialised care. Tertiary attraction infrastructure is undergoing large enlargement with 35 teaching hospitals present contiguous crossed each districts and 13 speciality institutions nether development. Key projects see the caller 2,000-bed Osmania General Hospital (OGH), modernisation of Gandhi Hospital, the ₹1,698 crore enlargement of Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) with 2,020 further beds, and upgraded centres of excellence astatine MNJ Cancer Institute and the Institute of Mental Health, Erragadda.

The Minister added that the State is emerging arsenic an planetary hub for aesculapian care, attracting much than 1 lakh aesculapian tourists each year, supported by the State’s Medical Tourism Policy.

Telangana is strengthening equity successful healthcare done targeted programmes for women, children, adolescents, elder citizens and susceptible groups. Telangana continues to support afloat organization deliveries and supports maternal and kid wellness done nutrition kits, biosensor monitoring for high-risk pregnancies, kangaroo parent attraction and broad teen wellness services, the Minister added.