Revanth Reddy sets 2 June 2028 deadline for PHFI campus in Hyderabad

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy laid the foundation of a new PHFI campus in Hyderabad on Saturday, 14 November. He wants the Public Health Foundation of India to have it built and open by 2 June 2028, Telangana Formation Day. He promised the state’s full backing and said he would be the institution’s brand ambassador himself.

The campus is meant for the PHFI Institute of Public Health Sciences, which the Union Ministry of Education granted deemed-to-be university status in June 2025. PHFI lists the Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad, as the university’s main campus, with its institutes in Bhubaneswar and Bengaluru as constituent units. The Hyderabad institute already teaches a two-year Master of Public Health course, affiliated to the Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences, and a one-year postgraduate diploma in public health management.

Rs 12,000 crore for hospitals

Revanth Reddy told the gathering that the government is putting Rs 12,000 crore into hospital infrastructure. The Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences (TIMS) hospital at Sanathnagar is open and the other TIMS hospitals will follow, he said, while at Goshamahal work is under way on a replacement Osmania General Hospital. Aarogyasri and the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund between them cost the state about Rs 2,500 crore every year, he said.

He described Telangana as a state rich in health data. Cancer has been made a notifiable disease and patient details collected, he said, and a study of Aarogyasri data could show which illnesses cluster in which regions. Fluoride contamination and the polluted Musi were harming people in Nalgonda district, he added, and the river had to be cleaned up to protect them.

Message to investors

The Chief Minister used the occasion as well to assure industrialists that Telangana faces no policy paralysis, and that separate policies cover the water, land, approvals and infrastructure they need. Hyderabad makes 40% of the bulk drugs produced in India, he said, a base that goes back to the public-sector IDPL plant of the 1960s. Eli Lilly, he added, is preparing to invest one billion dollars in Hyderabad.

PHFI chairman Rajat Gupta, Chancellor K. Srinath Reddy, officiating Vice-Chancellor M. Vishnuvardhan Rao, Pro-Chancellor Sanjay Zodpey and industrialist Srini Raju attended the ceremony. To draw investment, the state will host the Invest Telangana Global Summit on 7, 8 and 9 December, Revanth Reddy said.