Health and tech: Govt hospitals on par with private hospitals in Telangana

These hospitals actively seek and participate in high end expensive surgeries for poor patients under Aarogyasri health insurance and Ayushman Bharat scheme

Hyderabad: Government tertiary hospitals in Telangana have long been limited to expanding basic primary care, maternal and child care, seasonal disease surveillance and treatment, and state-run healthcare initiatives.

Almost all high-end superspecialty surgery has so far remained the domain of corporate hospitals, barring a few sporadic complex surgeries at Gandhi Hospital and OGH.

However, the landscape for specialist healthcare services is changing over the past two years as government hospitals in Telangana actively seek and participate in high-end and expensive surgeries for poor patients under the Aarogyasri Health Insurance and Ayushman Bharat schemes.

While the gap between government hospitals and for-profit private hospitals in terms of infrastructure, patient amenities, well-trained healthcare staff continues, the fact remains that in a year or so, the Government hospitals have become a safe hospital alternative for poor patients who previously had to pay out-of-pocket medical bills to receive treatment in private hospitals.

Through the tireless efforts of Basthi Dawakhanas and the Urban Primary Health Care Center (UPHC) in providing support to senior teachers, upgrading healthcare infrastructure, introducing performance-based incentive schemes to healthcare workers, and strengthening primary care services, government hospitals are now Health Organization Competition Agency.

Advanced surgery:

Currently, not only in Hyderabad but even in the districts, almost all the teaching hospitals are active in orthopedics, cardiology, nephrology, liver, organ transplantation and gastroenterology. Heart surgery has become possible in government hospitals thanks to the state government’s recent initiative to establish cardiac catheterization laboratories in all teaching hospitals.

Aarogyasri Health Insurance and Aysuhman Bharat:

All major surgeries performed in government hospitals are now covered under Aarogyasri and Aysuhman Bharat insurance plans.

In fact, there has been an increase in Aarogysri patients in public hospitals for the first time in the past year or so. Aarogysri health insurance also provides incentives to government doctors and other healthcare workers, including nurses and paramedics.

Basthi Dawakhanas:

Modern Basthi Dawakhanas that provide primary healthcare facilities in urban centers and hospitals that provide Palle Dawakahanas in rural areas ease the burden of outpatient inflows in tertiary teaching hospitals.

As a result, senior faculty members, including experienced surgeons from teaching hospitals, have ample time to focus on planning and performing more complex diseases, including surgeries.

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