Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel will inaugurate 'Dai-Didi Clinic', a special clinic for women, on November 19, the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, it was announced on Wednesday.
This mobile clinic launched for women will be the first of its kind in the country, an official statement said.
Only women patients will be provided free treatment in the clinic. Only women staff and women doctors, women lab technicians and women ANMs will be employed.
With its inauguration, women and girls residing in slum areas will get treatment from women doctors near their home.
The clinic will be operated under the 'Chief Minister Urban Slum Health Scheme'.
At present, one Dai-Didi clinic for women is being started in each of the three big municipal corporations: Raipur, Bhilai and Bilaspur.
Along with the first aid, the clinic will provide additional facilities of breast cancer screening by female doctors, self-breast examination and regular and special screening of pregnant women.
The clinic will be set up in a slum area on a predetermined day near Anganwadi in the cities, in collaboration with the Women and Child Development Department.
In addition, benefits of various welfare projects of the Department for pregnant women and children will be provided.
The release said that there is no separate screening room for women in general clinics and female counsellors for women are also not available.
Because of this, women hesitate to seek information about family planning tools, copper-T insertion, emergency pills, birth control pills, weekly contraceptive pill, contraceptive injection, family planning and STD counselling.