SNEAK PEAK INTO AAP’S PET PROJECT

The mohalla clinics were started by the AAP government in their first year in office to take diagnostics and treatment of simple ailments to people’s doorstep. Affordable healthcare was a key poll promise of the AAP government, which came to power in Febr

HOW IT WORKS

A three-tier structure has been put in place that works on the primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare model.

For immediate consultation, there is the mohalla clinic

For further diagnosis and treatment, there are polyclinics

The third tier for surgeries and treatment are the existing multi-specialty hospitals

SERVICES

Provide 110 essential medicines and 212 diagnostic tests

110 clinics have treated 1.5 million people between April and December

FREE MEDICINES

Delhi’s essential drug list to include 1,390 drugs, up from 406 in 2014

Only generic drugs prescribed from list of essential drugs

MINUS

The promise of 1,000 Mohalla clinics by March 2017 has not been met. There are major inconsistencies in services and quality of care across the clinics.

APPRECIATION

What New Delhi’s free clinics can teach America about fixing its broken health care system: Washington Post

Delhi’s mohalla clinics proving popular with residents: UK-based Lancet

Karnataka wants to replicate Karnataka to replicate Delhi’s ‘mohalla clinics’

There should be no politics with mohalla clinics. It involves the health of two crore Delhiites. The lieutenant-governor must clear files immediately now — Arvind Kejriwal