The Delhi Government has proposed Rs 6,279 crore on health sector in 2018-19 which is less than half of the total outlay proposed for the education sector. The Delhi Government will launch Universal Health Insurance Scheme (UHIS) to cover treatment to citizens of Delhi in empanelled private hospitals and Government hospitals.
For which a committee has been constituted to prepare detailed guidelines of the UHIS scheme. An outlay of Rs 100 crore is proposed for this scheme. Government also proposes to set up “Rogi Kalyan Samitis” in each assembly constituency having “Jan Swasthaya Samiti” as its sub-committee in each public health facility so as to ensure better community participation in management of health care services. For which an outlay of Rs 50 Crore is proposed in 2018-19.
In its bid to strengthen the Delhi's three tier health infrastructure, Government plans to construct 1000 Aam Aadmi Mohalla clinics. Further to reduce burden on Government hospitals 94 dispensaries have been identified for starting Polyclinics. An outlay of Rs 403 crore is proposed for Mohalla clinics and polyclinics.
Also a pilot project for “First Responder Vehicles” (FRV) with 16 motorcycles to be manned by trained ambulance manpower, in East Delhi will be started to reduce the response time and also helpful to reach in narrow streets of congested areas within shortest possible time. Further, Mobile Van Clinics providing health care services specifically for eye and ear care will be established. An outlay of Rs 15 crore is proposed for the year 2018-19.
In order to expand the patient admission capacity in government run hospitals, government plans to raise the total bed strength from 10000 beds to 20000 so as to double the patient admitting capacity. An outlay of Rs 450 crore is proposed for the construction of new hospitals and remodeling of the existing Delhi government hospitals. Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia told that the construction work of 1500 bedded hospital at Dwarka is at advanced stage while 2546 new beds will be added in 7 existing Delhi Government hospitals. Further new hospitals at Madipur, Jwalaheri, Hastsal , Sarita Vihar, Deendarpur, Keshvpuram, and Chattarpur are at planning stage.
The Delhi Government has also decided to bear the cost of medical care of road accident victims, acid attack victims and thermal burn injuries etc. of incident occurred in Delhi, irrespective of the income or residence of the victims. Further, 24 Delhi Government hospitals have been authorized to refer the patient to 48 empanelled private hospitals for free surgeries. An outlay of Rs 50 crore is proposed in 2018-19 to bear the expenditure through Delhi Arogya Kosh.
Also, an outlay of Rs 20 crore is proposed for the purpose of providing free of cost diagnostics services like MRI, CT, Ultrasound, Colour Doppler EEG, EMG etc to all patients attending Delhi Government hospitals in designated empanelled private centres after referral from Delhi Government Public Health Facilities.