Well being Minister Damodol Rajnarsinghe just about inaugurated the Day Care Most cancers Middle at Authorities Medical Faculty Sangareddy in Sangareddy district on September 9, 2025. Photograph courtesy of The Hindu
From chemotherapy periods to radiotherapy to specialised most cancers surgical procedures, sufferers in a number of districts of Telangana proceed to depend on the capital metropolis of Hyderabad and its surrounding city areas for most cancers therapy, in accordance with the state’s ‘Telangana Area-wide Most cancers Incidence and Prevalence Mapping’ report.
The report, primarily based on Aarogyasri therapy knowledge from April 2020 to September 2025, highlights the sharp focus of most cancers infrastructure and affected person numbers in Hyderabad and neighboring districts. Total, the report recognized 1,00,294 most cancers sufferers who had been handled underneath Aarogyasri throughout the research interval.
In Hyderabad, Telangana had the best variety of handled most cancers sufferers at 12,517 adopted by Rangareddy with 6,372. Mechal Malkajgiri, 5,483 individuals. Nalgonda has 4,840 individuals. Nizamabad has 4,520 individuals. Khammam has 4,086 individuals. Karimnagar has 3,601 individuals. Jagtial had 3,586 individuals and Hanumakonda had 3,470 individuals. Mulugu had the bottom variety of most cancers sufferers at 804.
Hyderabad has 26 most cancers therapy hospitals, together with 14 authorities amenities and 12 non-public amenities. That is adopted by Rangareddy metropolis with one authorities hospital and 5 non-public hospitals, Mechal Malkajgiri metropolis with three authorities hospitals and three non-public hospitals, Hanumakonda metropolis with two authorities hospitals and three non-public hospitals, and Karimnagar metropolis with one authorities hospital and two non-public hospitals.
The figures present that sufferers from a number of districts are coming to Hyderabad for prognosis, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgical procedure and follow-up care, usually touring lengthy distances to go to a number of hospitals.
In line with the report, throughout the five-year and six-month research interval, 53,523 (53.4%) most cancers sufferers had been handled in non-public hospitals in comparison with 43,480 (43.4%) in authorities hospitals. An additional 3,291 sufferers had been handled in each departments. “Information exhibits that personal hospitals handle barely extra instances, reflecting affected person traits in preferring non-public sector amenities when receiving most cancers therapy by the Aarogyasri scheme,” the report stated.
The federal government-run Mehdi Nawaz Jung Institute of Oncology and Regional Most cancers Middle (MNJIO RCC) in Hyderabad has emerged as the biggest most cancers therapy middle with 34,256 handled instances. This was adopted by Basavatarakam Indo-American Most cancers Hospital and Analysis Institute (BIACHRI), Hyderabad, which handled 21,508 sufferers, and Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS), Hyderabad, which handled 8,641 sufferers.
The findings present an rising reliance on non-public most cancers facilities even inside government-funded well being programs, particularly in city clusters the place superior most cancers therapy amenities stay concentrated.
Sure extremely specialised procedures remained concentrated throughout the public well being system. The report states that every one 289 stem cell transplant surgical procedures recorded underneath the Aarogyasri Oncology Community throughout the research interval had been carried out solely in authorities hospitals.
