Telangana Government Will Complete Recruitment Of 2140 Doctors In Coming Weeks, Says Minister Harish Rao

The health minister said that over the next 10 days, the Telangana health wing will complete the recruitment of 1000 doctors in Primary Health Centres.

Telangana Health Minister T Harish Rao

Source : ABP Desam

New Delhi: In a bid to ensure quality healthcare and teaching faculty, Telangana Health Minister T Harish Rao on Friday said that in the coming weeks, the state government will complete the recruitment of 2,140 doctors in primary health care facilities and government specialty teaching hospitals.

Speaking at a 'Hospital Infection, Prevention and Control Training Program' at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS), the health minister said that over the next 10 days, the Telangana health wing will complete the recruitment of 1000 doctors in Primary Health Centres (PHCs) and release notification to fill up 1140 posts of assistant professor in all the teaching hospitals.

He further said that in addition to recruiting doctors at PHC and tertiary level, 140 nurses who have completed midwifery courses would also be inducted into government maternity hospitals in the next few weeks.

Rao said, "State government has launched an equipment management policy at Rs. 20 crores. We are modernising morgues and purchasing 56 premium ultrasound machines at the cost of Rs. 30 crores. While the state government does its utmost to provide modernised and accessible facilities, the standard of healthcare partly depends on caregivers. Our responsibility is to offer the impoverished in Telangana's rural and urban areas access to high-quality healthcare facilities".

According to a Telangana Today report, addressing the students and faculty of Siddipet Medical College on Wednesday, during the annual day celebrations, Health Minister T Harish Rao said that the MBBS seats in government colleges have been increased from 840 to 2,840 in the last eight years after Telangana state formation. 

Rao further said that since Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had a plan to set up Government Medical Colleges in all the 33 district headquarters, the number of seats in government medical colleges would cross 5,000 shortly.

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