Overview
- KT Rama Rao led coordinated inspections across Hyderabad, with BRS leaders reporting staff salaries pending for four to six months and shortages of essential drugs and reagents.
- BRS spokesperson Manne Krishank said a Rasoolpura clinic dispensed medicines about three months past their expiry date, calling it a serious lapse in safety oversight.
- Former minister T. Harish Rao demanded immediate payment of Basti Dawakhana staff and release of roughly Rs 1,400 crore in Aarogyasri dues reportedly owed to private hospitals.
- The party said diagnostic services at several clinics had collapsed, citing unavailable reagents for tests like B12 and D3 and a site with only 60 of 110 listed medicines in stock.
- BRS announced a detailed report to be compiled by former minister T. Rajaiah and warned of protests at TIMS sites, also alleging the TIMS and NIMS expansion projects remain unfinished since the change in government; the state’s response was not included in these reports.