The Delhi Government on Thursday launched 21 mohalla clinics in various parts of the national Capital as an effort to decongest big hospitals and make healthcare accessible to all. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated one such clinic in Munirka area. last year, the AAP Government had launched its first mohalla clinic as a pilot project at Rajiv Gandhi JJ Punjabi Colony, a relief camp in Each mohalla clinic is set up at the cost of Rs 20 lakh.
The AAP Government plans to set up 1,000 such clinics by December 31. Further, the Government will set up 150 polyclinics in the city by December 31.
“These polyclinics will have doctors from eight specialities such as orthopaedics, gynaecology and paediatrics among others which will provide medical test facilities like X-ray, ECG and ultrasound at these polyclinics. Presently, these machines are not available in the polyclinics.”
In a bid to decongest Government hospitals and make healthcare accessible to all, the Delhi Government has adopted a “three-tier public health roadmap”.
The first tier, mohalla clinics, followed by polyclinics in the second tier and third tier will be hospitals; they are being re-modelled even as new institutions are to be set up.