From shuttered duty rooms and unsafe hostels to sprawling, unopened hospitals, Telangana’s bold push to set up a government medical college in every district has resulted in an overstretched, understaffed system. Students are left to teach themselves, doctors go unpaid and faculty shortage cripple learning. Siddharth Kumar Singh exposes a public healthcare vision mired in delays, neglect and a widening gap between promise and practice
Telangana’s medical college expansion: Built to heal, left to rot
