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Owaisi seeks four digital X-ray machines for Osmania Hospital
Hyderabad MP and AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has urged Telangana Health Minister C Damodar Raja Narasimha to arrange four new digital X-ray machines at Osmania General Hospital. Owaisi said the hospital’s ageing,…
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Hyderabad MP and AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has urged Telangana Health Minister C Damodar Raja Narasimha to arrange four new digital X-ray machines at Osmania General Hospital. Owaisi said the hospital’s ageing, non-functional equipment was forcing patients to travel to Gandhi Hospital for scans, delaying diagnosis and treatment and increasing costs for patients and attendants.
The requirement identified for OGH includes one 800 mA machine, preferably with fluoroscopy, one 500 mA machine and two 200 mA machines. Owaisi said the shortage was especially difficult for elderly people, emergency patients and those dependent on government healthcare. Siasat reports that Narasimha told the Telangana Assembly in March that state government hospitals had 195 X-ray machines.
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Claims that public hospitals need only more buildings miss the daily cost of broken equipment. Equally, presenting one MP’s letter as proof of a wider system failure would go too far without data on machine availability and usage. The practical test is simple: how quickly does OGH install the four identified machines, and do patients stop being sent to Gandhi Hospital for routine X-rays?
Sources (2): timesofindia.indiatimes.com, siasat.com
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Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
