Hyderabad, June 23 -- Even as demands for a new modern building for Osmania General Hospital (OGH) are growing, the state-run healthcare centre's existing has not been in order thanks to government apathy. From the last one-and-a-half-year, the hospital's angiogram machine has been out of order, due to which the administration has been turning away patients.

Angiography is a procedure that can be both diagnostic and therapeutic for heart patients. It is more or less the gold standard for checking blockages in the arterial system of a human being. Anangiogram machinedetects blockages using X-rays taken during the injection of a contrast agent or an iodine dye. Given that Osmania Hospital is one of the main state-run healthcare centres in ...