The Chief Minister’s Urban Slum Health Scheme is getting an overwhelming response from people residing in urban slums in Chhattisgarh.
Under the scheme, doorstep healthcare facility is provided and more than 22 lakh people have benefitted, a communication from the Health Department said on Tuesday.
So far, a total of 22,42,235 patients have been treated under the scheme with the help of 90 Mobile Medical Units (MMUs) in the state, it said.
The scheme is providing medical services and medicine to the urban population living in slum areas across the state.
At the medical camps held under the scheme, beneficiaries are provided free consultation, treatment, medicines and lab test facilities.
The scheme was started on November 1, 2020 and was later expanded to all the municipal bodies located in urban areas of the state.