KCR might be good at media management and whipping up the Telangana sentiment whenever there is a threat to his reign but it is an indisputable fact that he is desperately lacking in skills at addressing health problems in the city.
During the first term, Hyderabad and Telangana were badly rocked by the swine flu menace.
Swine flu deaths still continue to occur, it’s only that the media is bored of reporting them and they only find a mention in the odd column or two in the inner pages of the city edition.
In his second term, Dengue fever is making the lives of the people miserable. Several deaths have been reported and government hospitals continue to be flooded with patients.
However, there doesn’t seem to be any understanding and response on the part of the TRS government towards tackling this calamity.
They merely seem to be hoping that it would end if they just weather it out. And infrastructure management has a huge role to play in the spread of such viruses.
Whenever it rains in Hyderabad, traffic goes for a toss. Drains spill on to the muddy roads and potholes carrying with them all kinds of filth and garbage. These assist in the spread of diseases such as Dengue.
An aspiring world-class city should have a world- class health management system as well failing which the dream of ‘Bangaru Telangana’ will easily metamorphose into a ‘Dengue Telangana’.