Delhi Govt to open 100 mohalla clinics for women

New Delhi, November 2

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday announced that 100 special mohalla clinics for women will be opened in the national capital and said these will be run by an all women staff.

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Inaugurating four ‘mahila special mohalla clinics’, he said children below 12 years and women will get free of cost treatment at these facilities. The mohalla clinic system, a flagship initiative of the Kejriwal government, is aimed at boosting primary healthcare in the city, and according to the Outcome Budget presented in the assembly on March 25, on an average, one mohalla clinic handles 116 patients a day and together 520 these facilities have over 60,000 patients a day.

“Four mahila mohalla clinics, special clinics for women where gynaecological services, tests and medicines will be available free of cost for them and children under the age of 12 years, are being opened today. In the first phase, 100 such clinics will be opened for women and children,” Kejriwal said.

The Chief Minister, however, did not comment on a timeline on the opening of these clinics.

“It was felt that there needed to be some facilities that are exclusively for women and therefore, based on the needs of women in Delhi, such facilities are being opened on a large-scale,” he said after the inauguration ceremony at the mahila mohalla clinic developed at the DIZ Staff Quarters in the Kali Mandir area.

The first four clinics have been started at Basti Vikas Kendra JJ Camp Moti Lal Nehru Camp in Munirka, Sector-4 DIZ area, Sapera Basti in Kondli and DJB Sewage Pumping Station Batla House in Okhla.

In addition to the 239 tests done at mohalla clinics, all tests related to women and adolescent healthcare will be done at these new facilities, he said.