Medical education minister Kondru Murali visited Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital here on Sunday in the wake of recent infant deaths reported in the hospital.
He was accompanied by district in-charge minister Ramreddy Venkat Reddy, BC welfare minister Baswaraju Saraiah and government chief whip Gandra Venkataramana Reddy.
Murali inspected the children’s ward and spoke to the patients to find out about the treatment being offered.
Later, he reviewed the facilities available at the hospital with the medial officials.
Addressing newsmen later, Murali admitted that the hospital was ill-equipped and gave a clean chit to the doctors as regards the deaths of infants.
He attributed the deaths due to lack of facilities in the hospital.
The infant mortality rate in the state is far less when compared to the national average, he said while assuring that all measures would be taken to reduce the figure by installing 20 ventilators in the hospital in the next 10 days.
The 250 vacant posts of doctors in the hospital, especially in super specialty wing, would be filled at the earliest and this time on permanent basis.
Further, the 338 contract nurses would be regularised and all the required equipment in children’s ward would also be bought in the next 20 days, the minister said.
Earlier, the minister visited the maternity hospital in Hanamkonda and Chandakantaiah Memorial Maternity Hospital in Warangal.
Meanwhile, mild tension prevailed at the hospital when a group of junior doctors, TRS leaders and MGM Hospital Parirakshana Committee members raised slogans against the minister.
The police used mild force when TRS activists led by Warangal (West) MLA Dasyam Vinay Bhaskar tried to barge into the hospital following which they entered into heated argument with the cops.
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