The Delhi government is constructing two mohalla clinics inside portable containers in Shakurbasti area of the city, which the authorities plan to replicate in dense cluster colonies where creating health infrastructure at a dedicated building is a challenge owing to space constraints. A senior official had earlier said the city currently has over 500 mohalla clinics, a neighbourhood facility for providing free primary healthcare to residents. A typical mohalla clinic has a doctor and a midwife-cum-nurse. It provides an array of diagnostic services and essential medicines free of cost. Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain Friday visited the sites of two mohalla clinics being constructed in giant containers in Shakurbasti and took stock of the situation. "Visited the construction site of 2 new Mohalla Clinics at Shakurbasti. These Clinics have been set up in portable containers. Such Clinics are easy to set up & transport in Cluster areas like Jhuggi-Bastis & narrow streets ...
Each mini-clinic will have one doctor, one nurse and an assistant and will operate for four hours in the morning and four hours in the evening
Each clinic to have one doctor, one nurse and an assistant.
Over the past six months, the neighbourhood primary health centres have remained largely ill-equipped
Mohalla clinics in the city have been instructed to start Covid-19 testing with immediate effect as part of the Delhi government's strategy to ramp up testing amid a surge in coronavirus cases
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There are over 160 Mohalla Clinics in Delhi
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