Hyderabad: Teaching hospitals run by the Government, which have been under the Medical Council of India's scanner for the past few years, will have a new look. This follows the Government's decision to earmark a huge sum of Rs.165 crores for undertaking repairs to buildings and upgrading infrastructure of all the 10 teaching hospitals.

These hospitals were found to have several deficiencies in infrastructure and fallen short of standards prescribed by the Medical Council of India for recognising the attached medical colleges.

Deficiencies

Speaking to The Hindu here on Wednesday, G. Rudraraju, chairman of Andhra Pradesh Health, Medical, Housing and Infrastructure Corporation (APHMHIC), said the deficiencies ranged from improper hostel facilities to inadequate laboratories and mortuaries to lack of staff quarters.

He said the Chief Minister had directed the corporation to ensure quality in the works which had already been awarded.

Mr. Rudraraju said a delegation led by him which visited Chennai was impressed with the functioning of the Tamilnadu Medical Services Corporation. It now wanted to upgrade the medical facilities in the teaching hospitals here on similar lines.

He disclosed that a delegation of the MCI would inspect the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) at Cuddapah next month.

The 750-bed teaching hospital was built at a cost of Rs.150 crores. The corporation had recently urged the Government to allow it to install sophisticated diagnostic equipment in the teaching hospital so that it could be run on a cost-to-cost basis with priority being given to in-patients.

Court buildings

Meanwhile, the Government issued an order on May 9 entrusting the construction and maintenance work of buildings of the A. P. High Court, the subordinate courts and quarters of judges and judicial officers to the Corporation.

The Roads and Buildings Department, which was hitherto executing these works, would pay Rs.40 crores to the Corporation annually for the job, Mr.Rudraraju said.

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