The Telangana government has decided to provide free organ transplant surgeries under the Aarogyasri healthcare scheme to the poor people in the state.

Revealing this, C Laxma Reddy, minister for health and family welfare said that the state government has brought in various policy changes in the healthcare sector of the state aimed at strengthening the basic medical infrastructure in the government hospitals and thereby providing high quality healthcare services free of cost to the poor and at affordable rates to the common public.

“Our focus is to improve and upgrade the existing infrastructure facilities in the government hospitals. To begin with we are planning to set up dialysis centres in all the major regional hospitals and cancer diagnosis centres at the district headquarter hospitals. As more and more people are suffering from organ dysfunction, there is a huge list of poor patients who are waiting for organ transplants. For such patients the government has decided to provide free of cost organ transplant surgeries,” said the health minister.

As part of strengthening the government hospital infrastructure facilities in the rural areas, the government is spending hundreds of crores of rupees for construction of new primary healthcare centres (PHCs). Recently the minister inaugurated a PHC constructed at a cost of Rs.50 lakhs at Pulimamidi village in Utkoor Mandal of Mahabubnagar district and promised to construct more PHCs to serve the rural public.

“We are drafting a new healthcare policy to provide highest quality healthcare at affordable cost to the common public. As part of this initiative we have decided to set up Intensive Care Units (ICUs) at Siddipeta, Karimnagar, Mahabubnagar and Narayanpeta across the state. Based on the success of this we will also take up other advance medical technology up gradations in the government hospitals in a phased manner,” informed the Minister.

Concerned particularly about the healthcare of the pregnant women and children, the minister has decided to launch a special 102 ambulance to transport pregnant women and new born child from home to hospital and vice a vice free of cost. Similarly the state government has launched RBSK healthcare scheme to provide free healthcare checkup and treatment for all the school going children in the state.

“Our aim is to change the perception among the common public about the healthcare facilities and services in the government hospitals. We want to improve all necessary healthcare infrastructure and service in the government hospitals and provide quality healthcare to the common public,” observed the minister.