Telangana health minister Damodar Rajanarasimha has directed officials to make the TIMS hospitals at Alwal and LB Nagar, the Warangal Super Specialty Hospital and the expanded NIMS fully operational by June 2, 2027, while setting December 2027 as the deadline for completing the new Osmania Hospital.
The directions were issued during a review meeting on government hospital infrastructure and operations. The minister asked officials to accelerate hospital construction, medical equipment procurement and the recruitment of doctors and other staff at the same time, indicating that opening the facilities will depend on completing construction and preparing their operational systems together.
Rajanarasimha also ordered a unified recruitment policy for all three TIMS hospitals at Sanathnagar, Alwal and LB Nagar. Under the proposed arrangement, doctors and staff could be deployed between the facilities according to patient and service requirements. Management and housekeeping personnel are to be hired through outsourcing, while Group-1 officers will be appointed to supervise hospital administration.
The staffing plan is intended to create flexibility across the TIMS network as the newer hospitals become operational. The minister also asked officials to arrange doctors from outside until regular appointments at the TIMS facilities are completed.
The review also focused on surgical capacity at NIMS. According to the minister’s directions, surgeries are being delayed because the hospital has limited operation theatres despite having adequate surgeons. NIMS and TIMS managements have therefore been instructed to coordinate so that patients waiting for procedures can use available operation theatres and equipment at TIMS Sanathnagar.
The proposed use of TIMS Sanathnagar for NIMS patients links the city’s public hospitals through shared capacity rather than treating each facility as a separate unit. Its implementation will require coordination between the two hospital administrations and the availability of doctors, equipment and operating support.
The minister further directed officials to complete 79 dialysis centres that are under construction. He also called for a comprehensive plan to develop teaching, nursing and paramedical colleges alongside hospital infrastructure, connecting the expansion of facilities with the workforce required to run them.
The new Osmania Hospital remains on a longer construction timeline, with completion targeted for December 2027. Alongside the infrastructure and staffing measures, the minister ordered biometric attendance and AI-based monitoring of doctors and staff at government hospitals.
The immediate administrative priorities set out in the review are to complete the specified hospital projects, procure equipment, recruit and deploy personnel, use available operating theatres more efficiently and finish the dialysis centres. The June 2 deadline applies to the TIMS Alwal and LB Nagar hospitals, the Warangal Super Specialty Hospital and the expanded NIMS.
