BRS accuses govt. of delaying TIMS Hospitals with narrow-minded thinking

HYDERABAD

A team of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) legislators led by former Minister for Health T. Harish Rao and former Minister for Education P. Sabitha Indra Reddy visited the L.B. Nagar TIMS Hospital which is under construction in the city on Saturday and accused the Congress government of halting work for the last 22 months, purely on political grounds.

Along with local MLA D. Sudheer Reddy, city legislators K.P. Vivekanand, K. Venkatesh Yadav, MLC V. Yadava Reddy, former chairpersons of Corporations and other leaders of the party, Mr. Harish Rao and Ms. Sabitha Reddy visited the L.B. Nagar TIMS, work on which had come to a standstill for the last 22 months due to non-payment of bills for the completed work.

Speaking at the site, Mr. Harish Rao and others alleged that the Congress government had failed to bring into use the Warangal Health City and the TIMS Hospital taken up on four sides of the city to ease the burden on Osmania, Gandhi and King Kothi Hospitals, purely out of vengeance against former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao. It was unfortunate that the ruling party was playing politics with the institutions taken up to save people’s lives by providing timely health services.

They faulted the government for cancelling the medical colleges sanctioned to be established at Maheshwaram and Quthbullapur, also on political grounds. They accused the government for neglecting the Basti Dawakhanas too and asked Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy why salaries were not being paid to doctors and other staff of the neighbourhood clinics for the last six months.

Further, the Congress government was also diluting the Aarogya Sri scheme by not clearing ₹1,400 crore dues to hospitals and keeping the Kanti Velugu programme to address vision-related problems of people in the cold storage. The BRS leaders cautioned that people would revolt against the government if it continued to neglect even the health schemes.