Telangana govt to set up infection speciality hospital in Hyderabad

The Telangana government is setting up a state-of-the-art health facility to tackle infections with strong ammunition.

Describing it as first such facility in the country, health authorities said it has answers to the pressing need for having ‘clean wards’. The clean ward facility would be meant exclusively for housing patients of infections like swine flu, zika,



Ebola, Japanese encephalitis and the Nipah virus, apart from other deadly virulent outbreaks emerging in future.

The facility would come up in a 12-acre land near state-run Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Tropical and Communicable Diseases (Fever Hospital) with triple safety layers for patients, nurses as well as doctors.