Three years after it was built with the hope of providing quality healthcare to thousands of people, the ambitious Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (Nims) at Bibinagar is still in the cold storage.The state government has failed to inaugurate it despite the chief minister’s office fixing June 1 as the date for the same.
In fact, the CMO had fixed the date after an announcement by chief minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy three months back that he would throw open the hospital to the public on the said date for providing medical facilities to the needy people in the area.
And, as a part of preparatory measurers, director of NIIMS, Hyderabad, Dharmarakshak recently visited the hospital and conducted interviews for appointment of required doctors.
But after all this, the government has put off the inauguration of the hospital for some inexplicable reason.
It may be recalled that the government has decided to convert the NIMS campus at Rangapur, near Bibinagar, into a 150-bedded hospital and sanctioned Rs. 60 cr for providing necessary medical facilities.
The NIMS hospital buildings have been constructed in an area of 8.6 lakh sq.ft.
This hospital will have all basic specialties like general medicine, general surgery, orthopedics, gynaecology and obstetrics, dental, ENT, ophthalmology and trauma care centre.