Chhattisgarh: Mobile medical team to provide health facilities in slums

The mobile medical units will be stationed in slum areas falling under 13 municipal corporations in the state and people will be able to avail treatment at these facilities from 8 am to 2 pm once a week, he said.

Equipped with doctors and paramedical personnel, these units will offer free diagnostics facilities, other treatments and medicines for some minor ailments, he said.

Directives have been issued to set up three mobile medical teams in the Raipur Municipal Corporation, two each in Bhilai and Korba, and one each in the remaining 10 municipal corporations, he said.
Around 1.71 lakh families live in slums within these 13 municipal corporation limits.

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The mobile medical units are being introduced to strengthen the health care facilities for around 7.8 lakh people, the official said.

The concept was introduced as a pilot project in the village markets of Dantewada and Bastar districts in June this year, which had a positive outcome, he added.

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