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Delhi will have mobile mohalla clinics in JJ colonies and dense areas

The Delhi authorities is building two mohalla clinics interior transportable containers in Shakurbasti vicinity of the town, which the government plan to replicate in dense cluster colonies in which creating fitness infrastructure at a devoted building is a undertaking attributable to space constraints.


A senior respectable had in advance stated the city currently has over 500 mohalla clinics, a neighbourhood facility for offering unfastened number one healthcare to citizens.



A common mohalla health center has a health practitioner and a midwife-cum-nurse. It provides an array of diagnostic offerings and important drug treatments freed from price.


Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain Friday visited the web sites of two mohalla clinics being constructed in massive containers in Shakurbasti and took inventory of the scenario.


"Visited the development web page of 2 new Mohalla Clinics at Shakurbasti. These Clinics had been installation in transportable boxes. Such Clinics are smooth to installation & transport in Cluster regions like Jhuggi-Bastis & slender streets in which healthcare infrastructure is less accessible," he tweeted after his visit


Creating bodily healthcare infrastructure in dense place, JJ colonies, unauthorised colonies and internal regions of the city having slender partitions is a project, because of loss of space.


The AAP authorities had in February 2019 flagged off 16 bike ambulances, known as First Responder Vehicles (FRVs), in a district in east Delhi on pilot foundation.


The centers available in FRV encompass a portable oxygen cylinder, a primary resource package and dressing substances, air-splints, foldable transfer sheets, ambu baggage, glucometer, pulse oxymeter, a portable manual suction gadget, a GPS tool and a conversation tool.


These FRVs are manned by means of trained ambulance manpower.


Buoyed with the aid of the "overwhelmingly effective reaction" to the motorbike ambulance assignment in east Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in September 2019 had said that plans had been afoot to expand the carrier throughout the countrywide capital.


"A massive variety of people in Delhi live in unauthorised colonies or different such areas where streets are very slender. I turned into very involved about a way to provide higher emergency healthcare to the humans living in these colonies. With this in thoughts, the Bike Ambulance carrier become released... Delhi authorities is making plans to extend the service to the whole city," he had said.


Mohalla clinics, one of the flagship projects of the Kejriwal government to boost the primary healthcare gadget in Delhi,.


Jain currently had opened a new mohalla clinic at Tis Hazari court.


In January 2020, months before the COVID-19 pandemic hit Delhi, Chief Minister Kejriwal had inaugurated 152 mohalla clinics en bloc.


Earlier, Jain had stated that mohalla clinics help in keeping quacks away, as people have a facility to go to for easy illnesses. The plan is to have such centers as near households as viable.

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