Uttam demands Rs. 500 crore for Osmania Hospital new building

Hyderabad : Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) President and Nalgonda MP Capt. N. Uttam Kumar Reddy held the negligence of Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao responsible for the deteriorating condition of Osmania General Hospital.
Accompanied with senior Congress leaders including Hyderabad City Congress president M. Anjan Kumar Yadav, Feroz Khan, Mohammed Ghouse, Adam Santosh and others, Uttam Kumar Reddy visited the OGH and inspected the wards which were sub-merged due to rain water on Wednesday. He also inspected the stormwater drain from where rainwater entered the hospital. He also had a detailed interaction with the Incharge Superintendent, the Resident Medical Officer and patients.
On the arrival of Congress leaders, some patients approached them with specific complaints and alleged that they were made to run from one hospital to another for treatment. Uttam Kumar Reddy later requested the Superintendent Incharge to attend to those complaints.
Speaking to media persons later, Uttam Kumar Reddy said that the storm water entering the wards housing in-patients reflects on the poor functioning of CM KCR and his government and the Chief Minister must be ashamed of himself. He said Osmania Hospital was the most prestigious and well-known government hospital not just in Telangana, but in the combined Andhra Pradesh and also in part of Maharashtra and Karnataka. But the hospital, under KCR’s regime, has reached a stage where minor rains sub-merged the functional wards causing huge inconvenience to the patients admitted there. He said that the submergence of OGH wards, especially during the time of Corona pandemic, reflects the attitude of KCR’s Government towards public health.  The TPCC chief said that the Incharge Superintendent told the Congress leaders that nearly 150 doctors, including full-time Superintendent, were tested positive for Covid-19. “This reflects on the quality and untimely delivery of PPE kits given to doctors,” he said.