NIMS patients to undergo surgeries at TIMS Sanathnagar to reduce long wait times

Health Minister Damodar Rajanarasimha has directed officials to prepare an action plan to shift patients awaiting super-speciality surgeries at the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) to the Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences (TIMS) in Sanathnagar, Hyderabad. The decision, announced during a hospital inspection, aims to utilize the operation theatres at the Sanathnagar facility to reduce long waiting periods for critical operations.

The directive follows representations made by NIMS surgeons to the minister. The surgeons highlighted that although NIMS has expert medical teams in neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery, and urology, the limited number of operation theatres at the institute leads to significant delays in surgeries due to an overwhelming patient load.

Under the new plan, patients waiting for critical procedures such as neurosurgeries, kidney transplants, and cardiac surgeries at NIMS will undergo their treatments at TIMS Sanathnagar.

To implement this, Minister Rajanarasimha instructed the Director of Medical Education, Dr. Narendra Kumar, to establish the required administrative arrangements. These measures will allow NIMS medical teams to access and use the TIMS operation theatres as soon as the hospital becomes fully operational.

The minister issued these instructions during a visit to TIMS Sanathnagar, where he was accompanied by transplant surgeons from NIMS, Osmania General Hospital, and Gandhi Hospital. The delegation inspected the facility’s modular operation theatres, pre-operative and post-operative wards, intensive care units (ICUs), and other medical infrastructure before convening a review meeting.

During the review, Rajanarasimha stated that the government is developing TIMS Sanathnagar as a Centre of Excellence for Organ Transplantation, aiming to provide all types of transplant surgeries under one roof.

The transplant surgeons confirmed to the minister that TIMS Sanathnagar is equipped with the necessary advanced modular operation theatres, ICUs, and modern medical equipment to launch organ transplant programmes in a phased manner.