Overview

• A sudden power cut at Zaheerabad Area Hospital left emergency ward staff examining patients under mobile phone flashlights.
• The state health department suspended superintendent V. Sridhar Kumar over alleged negligence in managing the outage.
• An inquiry led by the Sangareddy district collector and Telangana Vaidya Vidhana Parishad commissioner found a failure to promptly activate the backup generator.
• New health ministry directives require all state-run hospitals to keep backup generators operational at all times.
• Opposition leaders have leveraged the incident to question the condition of rural healthcare facilities across Telangana.