Contractual vacancies for 200 posts at mohalla clinics

NEW DELHI: The Delhi government has advertised vacancies for 200 posts of pharmacists, auxiliary nurse midwives (ANM) and multitask workers each for its mohalla clinics. The staff would be hired on a contractual basis and would be paid on a per-patient basis, in the same manner the doctors at these clinics.

As of now, 190 of the planned 1,000 mohalla clinics are functional. Of these, 100 clinics operate from rented accommodations as part of the pilot project launched in 2016.

“We have been running the clinics on two models. For the mohalla clinics running out of rented accommodations, the empanelled doctors are allowed to keep two multi-task workers. For the clinics running out of the portacabins, we had called in pharmacists and nurses from our own dispensaries,” said Dr Kirti Bhushan, Delhi’s director general of health services.

The doctors at the mohalla clinics were paid ₹30 per patient and the multi-task workers were paid ₹10 for the same.

As the state government did not have an oversight on the workers being hired by the respective doctors, there were allegations that untrained personnel were drawing blood and dispensing medicines at some of these clinics.

Moreover, as staff of the Delhi government hospitals and dispensaries are overstretched, diverting them to the mohalla clinics further reduced their