Delhi to get 100 more Mohalla Clinics soon

New Delhi: The Kejriwal government will soon open 100 more Mohalla clinics across the city to provide primary healthcare services to residents. Preparations for these upcoming clinics are underway and will be completed soon. 

On Monday, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who holds additional charge of the Health Ministry, met with officials from the Public Works Department and the Health Department to review the project. 

In a statement, Sisodia said, ''The Kejriwal government's Aam Aadmi Mohalla Clinics are known around the world, and people have been visiting Delhi to learn about this public healthcare model. The Delhi Government's goal is to provide primary healthcare to every resident of Delhi, and expanding the number of Mohalla Clinics is a landmark step in the direction.''

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''Simultaneously, work on digitizing all Mohalla Clinics in Delhi is progressing quickly. Many Mohalla Clinics have been fully digitized, with information about patients and their medical histories collected using tablets available at clinics. Doctors will be able to learn about their patients' medical histories with a single click. This will assist doctors in better diagnosing and treating patients,'' he added.

According to Sisodia, the Mohalla Clinic is the first point of detection for any disease that strikes the city. After digitalization, the data from here will be used to assess any disease before it affects the people of Delhi. Furthermore, such data will be crucial in the development of health-related policies.

It is to be noted that the capital currently has 519 Mohalla Clinics that offer free primary health care services to patients, including 212 different types of tests. Every day, over 60,000 people are treated in these Mohalla Clinics.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that in a bid to provide the best health care services free of cost to the people across the state, the Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has announced to launch of his government's flagship program of Mohalla Clinics dedicating 75 such clinics in the first phase on the historic occasion of 75th Independence anniversary on this August 15.

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