Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain held a high-level review meeting on Thursday and directed officials to expedite setting up more mohalla clinics, besides installing CCTV cameras inside diagnostic laboratories to keep an eye on alleged malpractices.
There are more than 450 Mohalla Clinics operational in Delhi currently. The Health Ministry is keeping a close check on operations of Mohalla Clinic. Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain also emphasized on the need to strictly monitor the availability of medicines.
According to a statement, Jain reviewed the working of mohalla clinics across the national capital and stressed on the need for digitising prescriptions for diagnostic tests through test referral reports.
Since the number of patients visiting Mohalla Clinics for diagnostics is rapidly growing, the Health Minister also emphasized on the need to digitize prescriptions for diagnostic tests through test referral reports instead of manual prescriptions.
"Digitization of prescriptions and reports will smoothen the functioning of the Centres. As the state-run healthcare facilities that offer free medicines and tests expand in number, the monitoring systems too will need regular upgrading, which the ministry is ensuring," the statement quoted the health minister as saying in the meeting.
A mohalla clinic is a neighbourhood facility for providing free primary healthcare to the city's resident's closer home. A typical mohalla clinic has a doctor, a midwife-cum-nurse, and an array of diagnostic services and essential medicines are provided free of cost to patients there.