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.