‘1,000 new Mohalla clinics to treat 4.5 cr Delhiites’

Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said that nearly 4.5 crore patients in the Capital will be assured treatment, after the government reaches its aim to setting up 1,000 Mohalla clinics.

Jain added that the Aam Aadmi Party-led government was working fast-track towards setting up 1,000 Mohalla clinics in the Capital, to provide healthcare facilities to the people of Delhi.

Jain – who also holds portfolios of Public Works Department, Industries, Home and Urban Development – also said, “We have set up 164 mohalla clinics as of now and preparation is on for a total of 1,000 Mohalla clinics.”

He further noted that in the health sector, revolutionary changes have been made in the last three years.

“In the first year of setting up of Mohalla clinics, around three crore patients received treatment, while in the second year, around four crore patients were treated. This shows that people's faith has increased on such a health facility,” Jain said, also claiming that Delhi has become the first state in the country where free medicines are given to patients in government-run hospitals.

Mohalla clinics have been conceptualised as a mechanism to provide quality and accessible primary healthcare services to the communities in Delhi at their doorstep.

Earlier, Jain had said that the government would set up a five-member managing committee in each Mohalla clinic, with 100 health volunteers attached to them to effectively manage and monitor work in the clinics, and given annual honorarium of Rs three lakh.