Siddipet GMC has better facilities than AIIMS Bibinagar: Telangana Health Minister

AIIMS Bibinagar has no blood bank or labour rooms, said Telangana Health Minister T Harish Rao.

While praising the Siddipet government medical college, Telangana Health Minister T Harish Rao said that the state-run hospital has the best medical facilities when compared with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Bibinagar.

During the induction programme of the first batch of the Siddipet medical college, he said that at AIIMS, there is no blood bank or labour rooms and based on the request by students of AIIMS, the government allowed them to do practices in the nearby Bhuvanagiri Government Hospitals. 

"If you are studying medical education here today, it is because of Separate Telangana. Siddipet Medical College is one of the young medical colleges. While hospitals like Osmania get three or four PG seats, Siddipet got 57 PG seats and this was because of the efforts of the principal and staff," said Harish Rao, as reported by The Hans India.

"The services in the medical and health in the state have improved after the formation of a separate state and Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao having special focus," he added.

UG medical seats increased by 127%, says the minister

He said that before the formation of Telangana there were 2,950 UG medical seats and after seven years of the formation of Telangana there are 6,715 seats, which shows a growth of 127%. There were 1,180 PG seats but now there are 2,501 seats. There were five medical colleges before and now there are 17 colleges with the addition of five during the last seven years, he said adding there will be 33 colleges in 33 districts.

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