Telangana Govt set to launch air ambulance services: T Harish Rao

The Telangana government in the coming days is all set to launch an air ambulance facility that will enable patients to get quickly admitted to government specialty hospitals for emergency critical care. The air ambulance facility will be specially targeted towards patients and families residing in remote locations and belonging to economically backward sections who need emergency lifesaving health care facilities, State Health Minister, T Harish Rao on Monday, said.

Releasing the ten-year progress report of the Telangana Health department, Harish Rao on Monday said that due to the long term vision of Chief Minister, K Chandrashekhar Rao, within a decade, Telangana has transformed itself into a national healthcare role model, achieving accomplishments that were previously unimaginable, the Minister



said.

“On the occasion of the release of our progress report, I must also thank people of Telangana for their unstinted support to the health department. We will continue to come-up with unique initiatives like air ambulance facility for poor,” Harish Rao said.

Highlighting some of the upcoming new projects, Harish Rao said that in the coming weeks, the centralized state-of-the-art organ transplant centre at Gandhi Hospital will be ready for inauguration.

In the past nine years, a remarkable 22,600 positions have been filled within the medical department, with ongoing efforts to appoint an additional 7,291 posts. Overall, in the coming months, we would be able to complete the recruitment of nearly 30, 000 jobs in the medical department, he said.