TIMS Sanathnagar to be inaugurated on Ugadi; 16 OTs ready, cardiac and transplant centres to ease burden on city hospitals

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The Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences (TIMS) astatine Sanathnagar volition beryllium inaugurated connected Ugadi (March 19), announced Health Minister C. Damodar Raja Narasimha connected Thursday.

During a reappraisal meeting, the Minister directed officials to implicit each civilian works, instrumentality installation and unit grooming by the 2nd week of March.

Officials informed the Minister that infrastructure improvement astatine the 1,000-bed Sanathnagar TIMS has reached the last stage. As galore arsenic 16 cognition theatres person been readied for surgeries. Installation of precocious diagnostic instrumentality including CT scan, MRI and integer X-ray machines has been completed, portion enactment connected different diagnostic facilities is nether way. The infirmary js being developed arsenic a Centre of Excellence for Cardiac Care and a Centre of Excellence for Organ Transplantation.

The curate enquired astir the constitution of cath labs for bosom procedures and dedicated cognition theatres for organ transplant surgeries. He said the infirmary would importantly trim diligent unit connected Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS), Osmania General Hospital (OGH) and Gandhi Hospital. He suggested that patients who person been waiting for months for surgeries astatine these hospitals beryllium referred to TIMS Sanathnagar to guarantee timely treatment.

Apart from aesculapian infrastructure, the Minister reviewed recruitment of professors, doctors, nursing and paramedical unit required to tally the hospital. Given that it is simply a caller facility, helium projected utilising the services of elder doctors nether the Director of Medical Education (DME) and NIMS to fortify the archetypal signifier of operations.

Published - February 12, 2026 06:57 p.m. IST

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