If 3 government medical colleges are established in Telangana in 60 years, Minister Harish Rao said that 33 medical colleges have been established in 6 years.Speaking in the assembly on Monday on the setting up of medical colleges in the state, Harish Rao criticized the Center for not giving a single medical college to Telangana.
He said the existing 750 government medical seats would be increased to 2,850 from next year.
The minister said NIMS currently has 1400 wards and will set up another 2,000 wards.
He said that there was a shortage of dead bodies in medical colleges and that legal action would be taken to make dead bodies available to medical colleges.It has been revealed that classes will start this year in 8 newly established medical colleges in the state.
When the Opposition Congress members expressed apprehensions over the closure of the TIMS, Harish Rao said that the temporary staff – clinical and non-clinical – were taken on a contract basis for one year to treat Covid-19 cases.Their services were meant for only one year.
“Regular employees will be appointed once the TIMS is upgraded into super-speciality hospital,” Harish Rao said during the debate concerning health sector.
