HYDERABAD:
Telangana Congress president and
Nalgonda MP N
Uttam Kumar Reddy has demanded that the
State government conduct
RT-PCR tests to all the people coming for Covid-19 test in district government hospitals.
Uttam visited a Covid-19 ward in the government general hospital in
Suryapet district on Monday. He wore a PPE kit and interacted with the patients.
Later, he told media persons that doctors, nurses and para medical staff were doing a yeomen service to the society by risking their lives and treating
Coronavirus patients.
But the state government had reduced the number of Covid-19 tests. It is crucial to test as many people as possible to check the spread of Coronavirus.
The government should provide RT-PCR kits and other equipment to all the primary health centres in rural areas and test maximum number of people for Covid-19, and provide treatment, he said.
Uttam sought to assure that he would extend all help for development of government general hospital and stressed the need for the hospital to be upgraded into a 950-bed hospital from the present 300-bed capacity. The government start post graduate courses too in the government medical college, he added.
Uttam said he has already submitted a representation to the district collector to provide CT scan facility and ICU with ventilators in area hospital of
Huzurnagar, and dialysis and oxygen pipeline should be set up in the community health centre at Kodad.