For anyone travelling from SR Nagar towards Erragadda in Hyderabad, the massive government hospital rising along the Sanathnagar stretch is hard to miss. The Marri Chenna Reddy Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences (MCR TIMS), Sanathnagar, is now ready to open its doors, with Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy is scheduled to inaugurate the facility on Monday (August 17, 2026).

With 1,082 beds, the hospital is the biggest tertiary-care government hospital constructed in Telangana since the formation of the State in 2014, marking a major expansion of the public healthcare infrastructure in Hyderabad. It has been conceived as a Centre of Excellence for cardiac, renal, transplant and trauma sciences.

The project received administrative sanction on April 21, 2022, and its foundation stone was laid five days later, on April 26. The construction contract was subsequently awarded to Megha Engineering and Infrastructure Ltd. (MEIL), with a stipulated completion period of two months plus 24 months.

Actual construction commenced on February 8, 2023. By December 7 that year, work worth ₹120.89 crore had been carried out, with the project recording 13.14% physical and financial progress. The remaining work was taken up subsequently and the project has since moved towards completion, a senior official said.

Spread across 53.30 acres, the MCR TIMS Sanathnagar has a built-up area of 11.68 lakh sq ft and a project value of ₹1,126 crore. The hospital will have 1,082 beds, including 300 ICU beds, 400 general beds, 88 emergency beds, 30 dialysis beds and 264 beds under medical tourism, employees and pensioners and other categories.

The emergency block will account for 388 beds and include 15 major operating theatres, as well as trauma and neuro critical-care facilities. The outpatient block will have 350 beds, with cath labs, general wards and diagnostic and intervention facilities, including endoscopy and bronchoscopy rooms, radiation oncology and nuclear medicine services. The inpatient block will have another 300 beds.

The hospital is designed to bring advanced medical services under one roof. Its key specialities include cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, vascular surgery, nephrology, urology, dialysis, organ transplantation, gastro sciences, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopaedics and general surgery.

Its clinical profile will cover 28 departments across broad and super-specialities, diagnostics and support services. Nine additional departments are planned, including medical oncology, surgical oncology, radiation oncology, nuclear medicine, interventional radiology, transfusion medicine and haematology. The facility will also require a substantial workforce. The government has sanctioned 2,360 posts, including 1,633 medical posts, 355 allied posts and 372 non-medical posts.

With the hospital moving towards operationalisation, the Health Department has secured all 17 key licences and approvals required for the facility. These include the Fire NOC and occupancy approval, environmental clearance, drugs and pharmacy approvals, clinical establishments approval and blood bank NOC.

Beyond catering to patients from Hyderabad and across Telangana, the hospital is also being positioned as a medical tourism facility, with dedicated beds and facilities for international patients.