Warangal: Health minister T. Harish Rao has advised parents of pregnant women to prefer normal deliveries as they are better for the health of women. Harish Rao said before the formation of Telangana, there used to be just 200 deliveries at the government hospital in Metpally. He asked health officials to take necessary steps for increasing normal deliveries and breastfeeding …
HYDERABAD: In a move aimed at reducing the C-Section rate, the state government will provide team-based incentives of Rs 3,000 per delivery to staff in government health facilities who carry out normal deliveries above a certain benchmark. Performance above the benchmark shall be incentivised for health centres every month and the applicable amount shall be released to the institution on …
Karnan, the Collector of Telangana’s Karimnagar district, recently summoned a meeting of astrologers, pundits, and purohits, it raised more than a few eyebrows. It showed that Telangana, with a 53.51 per cent share of Caesarian deliveries in district hospitals, stands second among States for C-section deliveries. According to the NITI Aayog study, Karimnagar District Hospital with 69.93 per cent of …
JAGTIAL: Health minister T. Harish Rao has asked medical department officials to increase normal deliveries at government hospitals to around 50 per cent in the coming six months. Inaugurating a 100-bed mother and child healthcare centre here on Wednesday, he assured that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao will provide incentives to those hospitals which conduct normal deliveries. Before inaugurating the …
