After many problems and objections, the Telangana State Government has set the process to shift the patients of Osmania General Hospital (OGH) to Government Maternity Hospital located in Petlaburj and District Hospital in King Koti. There is no clarity on the heritage building that was in a state of demolishing. The future of the building was on doubt and not sure that the building would stay strong.

The State government has given permission for construct a new outpatient block. The block has been constructed at Petlaburj Maternity Hospital at a cost of Rs. 4.42 Cr. The medical equipment worth Rs. 6.92 Cr was also announced. It will be housed at the District Hospital in King Koti and Maternity Hospital.

The State Government has also permitted to hire vehicles for transportation of patients, doctors, drugs, diagnostic samples, diet from OGH to Maternity Hospital in Petlaburj and District Hospital in King Koti. A report has been submitted by the Director of Medical Education, TS and Telangana state Medical Services Infrastructure Development Corporation that seeking funds for urging the state government for allocating funds.

Those funds will be used to start the process of shifting OGH. The 90-year-old OGH heritage building was declared unfit for patients and doctors due to the dilapidated state by a report submitted by structural engineers from JNTU, Hyderabad. According to the reports of JNTU repeated requests from senior doctors at OGH and Telangana Government’s Doctor’s Association, in July, Chief Minister, K. Chandrasekhar Rao had visited the OGH campus.

At present, the OGH heritage building houses general surgery, general medicine, orthopedic, neurology and gastroenterology wings totaling nearly 800 beds. Welcoming the Government’s gesture, senior hospital doctors at OGH said that to operate outpatient department, which attracts anywhere between 1500 and 1800 patients daily, a full-fledged structure, and not a stop-gap arrangement, was needed.