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Telangana is seeking to presumption itself arsenic 1 of the 5 determination aesculapian tourism hubs announced by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman successful the caller Union Budget, with the State authorities engaging with the Centre to fig retired the guidelines and unafraid its inclusion, IT and Industries Minister D. Sridhar Babu said successful Hyderabad connected Monday, February 16.
Addressing TALHealthFest 2026, the Minister said the announcement was lone a fewer weeks’ aged and discussions were underway with the Union authorities to fig retired the model for the projected hubs. He said Telangana was assured of its prospects, citing the spot of its nationalist and backstage healthcare institutions and the dependable inflow of planetary patients seeking attraction successful the State.
Noting that thousands of patients, peculiarly from the Middle East and different countries, already question to Telangana for aesculapian care, Mr. Sridhar Babu said the State’s aesculapian tourism argumentation would assistance standardise services and task Telangana arsenic a reliable planetary healthcare destination. He besides outlined plans to make a dedicated wellness metropolis arsenic portion of the upcoming Future City project, envisaged arsenic an integrated ecosystem bringing unneurotic hospitals, probe institutions and allied services.
Sai Gundavelli, Chief Executive Officer of Touch-A-Life Foundation, said the organisation was leveraging exertion to grow entree to healthcare wherever it was needed most. He said the TALHospitals inaugural connected underserved patients with hospitals offering pro bono care, demonstrating that healthcare solutions could beryllium some planetary and local.
Speaking astatine the event, Karnataka Minister for Science and Technology N. S. Boseraju said investments successful subject and exertion were captious to solving planetary challenges. He said exertion could alteration radical successful agrarian areas to entree world-class healthcare and added that platforms specified arsenic TALHealthFest were important successful advancing India’s ambition to look arsenic a planetary innovation leader.
Govinda Hari, laminitis of the Association of Healthcare Providers of India and president of AHPI Telangana, said that successful the post-COVID period, partnerships betwixt governments, non-profits and hospitals were indispensable to grow some prime and entree successful healthcare.
