“In the past, public health was neglected. The rich are able to get treatment from the corporate hospitals but for the poor they have only the government hospitals. Hence the Telangana State government has given top priority to offer better services to the people. Facilities have been increased in all the government hospitals, 108, 102 and 104 services were bettered. Prestigious KCR Kits programme is implemented successfully. Besides the commitment of the government, doctors and other staff are also offering dedicated services. With this, people’s faith and confidence in the government hospitals has increased. There is a substantial increase in the patients that are coming to the government hospitals.

The Medical and Health department’s action plan should reflect the confidence reposed by the people. The situation should be bettered than the existing one but should not be lowered. The government is ready to increase the budget for the medical and health and in the next Budget, allocation funds would be increased. As on date, we are spending more funds for the irrigation projects to supply water to the farm sector. After the irrigation sector, the government’s priority would be health and education sectors. In future we will allocate more funds for these two sectors. There is no other priority other than giving better education and good health services to the poor. Officials should bear this in mind and prepare action plans and estimates for the ongoing and future needs. The government would accordingly allocate the funds. We are getting good results by the decentralization of the hospital administration. The Hospitals Superintendents should be entrusted with the responsibility of the administration and they should be directly given the funds,” the CM said.