Hyderabad, June 23 -- Ghiasuddin Akbar

By Ghiasuddin Akbar

Hyderabad: The Osmania general hospital was constructed during the reign of the seventh Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan. It was perhaps the largest hospital in the country then with a thousand bed facility.

The hospital was deigned by the famous Architect Vincent Jerome Esch at a cost of twenty one lakhs,twenty two thousand and five hundred rupees, in 1925 . Just imagine what this building would cost if it is constructed now in the present times?

Hyderabad Deccan was merged into the Indian Union and became part reorganization of states in the year 1956. Nizam the seventh, after the police action in 1948, was respected and given the status of Raj parmukh. Medical facility for the poor...