HYDERABAD: State-of-the-art diagnostic centres, where 57 tests will be conducted free for the poor, were opened at government hospitals in 19 districts on Wednesday.
Education minister Sabitha Indra Reddy, who opened one such facility at the Vikarabad government hospital, said chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s plan was also to establish the diagnostic centres in the remaining 13 districts.b“Not only will the required tests be done, the idea is to refer patients to specialist doctors for required treatment.
All the tests that are done in corporate hospitals will be done in the diagnostic centres in the government hospitals,” she added.
As per the plan, the blood samples would be collected at the primary health centres and taken to diagnostic centres for conducting the tests.
Each diagnostic centre has been established at a cost of Rs 3.5 crore.
Endowments minister A Indrakaran Reddy, who inaugurated a diagnostic centre at the government general hospital in Nirmal, said the test results would be sent directly to the mobile phone of the patient.
Transport minister Puvvada Ajay, who inaugurated a diagnostics centre at the government district hospital in Khammam, also flagged off a vehicle which would be used to ferry blood samples from primary health centres to the hospital.
“We have seen that due to Covid, people are forced to undergo several tests which are expensive.
In this situation, patients will benefit as the tests will be done free of cost,” he said.