Govt. apathy leads to death of 4,000 children every year: Kavitha
Kavitha, chief of the Telangana Rakshana Sena (TRS), accused the government of negligence, causing around 4,000 children to lose their lives annually in Telangana. During a press conference, she presented statistics on infant deaths: 6,000 in 2020-21, 4,933 in 2022-23, and 3,853 in 2024-25. She also reported 1,046 infant deaths in Hyderabad for the previous year.
Kavitha pointed out the recent incident at RIMS in Adilabad, criticizing the Health Minister's visit. She claimed that the minister's concern was his helicopter running out of fuel instead of addressing the hospital's condition. Kavitha also criticized the government's healthcare expenditure, stating that only ₹9,242 crore was spent against a ₹13,192 crore allocation the previous year.
Furthermore, she alleged that seven out of 11 health schemes had not received any budgetary allocation and that there was a ₹500 crore pending in Aarogyasri dues.
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