Hyderabad: In a bid to improve urban mobility and also reduce traffic congestion in the city, chief minister A Revanth Reddy asked the officials to prepare proposals for Personal Rapid Transit System (PRTS). He asked the officials to develop a PRTS corridor from LB Stadium to Ranigunj bus station via Ambedkar Statue, Indira Park and lower tank bund. Another corridor from the Assembly Metro Station through Ravindra Bharathi, the Secretariat, and IMAX, extending up to Begumpet, will be taken up. The CM asked the officials to immediately take up the proposed PRTS line connecting KPHB Metro Station, Durgam Cheruvu, Raheja Mindspace, and Biodiversity Metro Station, providing seamless connectivity to Hyderabad’s IT corridor, which was already proposed.
He announced that Group-1 officers would be appointed to supervise TIMS hospitals, and that retired military officers would be engaged to monitor housekeeping staff. The chief minister noted that while the health sector received an average allocation of 3.9% of the state budget in the past, the allocation had increased to an average of 4.8% over the last three years.
He said Sanath Nagar TIMS should be utilised whenever NIMS faces a shortage of beds or delays in conducting surgeries. The chief minister suggested that hospital maintenance and housekeeping services should be outsourced. As surgeries at NIMS are reportedly taking considerable time, the CM directed officials to make full use of the Sanath Nagar TIMS hospital. He asked the principal secretary of the Medical and Health department and the directors of NIMS and TIMS to coordinate regularly on this matter.
He said doctors and staff should be transferable between the three TIMS hospitals depending on medical service requirements. At a review meeting on the health department at MCRHRD on Thursday, the CM asked officials to follow a unified recruitment policy for doctors and other staff at the TIMS hospitals in Sanath Nagar, Alwal, and LB Nagar.