New Delhi |HL Correspondent
In a gift for people of Delhi, Aap government opened 21 mohalla clinics in the capital on Thursday.
The inauguration was done by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at Munirka area in the presence of Aap supporters.
CM Kejriwal said “now people can avail the treatment for minor alinments in mohalla clinics, they no need to go to the private clinics.”
The clinics will offer medicines consultation and common diagnostic services and later these polyclinics will have doctors from eight specialities such as orthopaedics, gynaecology and paediatrics among others which will provide medical test facilities like X-ray, ECG and ultrasound at these polyclinics.
The cost of setting up 21 mohalla clinics is 20 lacs while, previously the other governments spent 5crore in building up dispensaries said CM Kejriwal.
There would be 1,000 such clinics were set up by December of this year which was in the plan of Aap government to make health facilities accessible for all. Officials said that the mohalla clinics being run from rented premises would soon have permanent set-ups.
According to senior doctor 42 patients reached at Munirka clinic for treatment.
The first mohalla clinic was inaugurated in Rajiv Gandhi JJ Punjabi Colony, a relief camp in Peeragarhi, in July last year. The government has also opened polyclinics for secondary-level care.
