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BRS Inspections Flag Shortfalls at Telangana Basti Dawakhanas as Health Minister Rebuts

Government rejects the opposition’s charges, citing high patient volumes with full services at the clinics.

Overview

  • On October 21, K.T. Rama Rao led BRS teams through multiple Hyderabad Basti Dawakhanas, alleging months of unpaid salaries, dwindling medicine stocks, and stalled diagnostics.
  • BRS spokesperson Manne Krishank said he found medicines three months past expiry being handed to a patient at the Rasoolpura clinic.
  • Former minister T. Harish Rao demanded immediate payment of staff wages and release of roughly Rs 1,400 crore in pending Aarogyasri dues to private hospitals.
  • BRS leaders accused the government of leaving four 1,000‑bed TIMS hospitals and a 2,000‑bed NIMS expansion unfinished and warned of protests at project sites.
  • On October 22, Health Minister Damodar Raja Narasimha said Basti Dawakhanas treat about 45,000 people daily with full drug availability and 134 tests, alleging the BRS is spreading false propaganda.