Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai will launch 108 Namma Clinics beneath the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) limits on Tuesday, well being minister Ok Sudhakar stated on Monday.
Sudhakar stated the state authorities has given prime precedence to enhancing healthcare infrastructure within the state, and Namma Clinics are heralding a brand new period in major healthcare.
In December final 12 months, the chief minister launched 100 Namma Clinics at Bairadevarakoppa in Dharwad. A complete of 438 such clinics are being launched, which can assist in guaranteeing high quality preventive and first look after day by day wagers and labourers, amongst others, the well being minister stated.
Sudhakar stated every Namma Clinic would cater to fifteen,000-20,000 individuals and supply 12 companies, together with antenatal, postnatal care and immunisation.
“Underneath the Nationwide City Well being Mission, at current, there’s one major well being centre for each 50,000 inhabitants. Now, beneath the grants of the fifteenth Finance Fee, we’re establishing one major well being centre to cater 15,000-20,000 inhabitants in city areas. Out of the 438 Namma Clinics, 243 might be in BBMP, and the remaining 195 might be in districts,” the minister defined.
“Namma Clinics are designed to offer common and complete major healthcare in city areas. Referral services may even be obtainable and sufferers requiring increased therapy might be referred to secondary and tertiary centres. This won’t solely cut back the price of therapy however may even decentralise the healthcare companies,” Sudhakar stated.
Every Namma Clinic can have one physician, one nursing employees, one lab technician and a D-group employee. “A complete of 12 healthcare companies packages might be obtainable, together with antenatal, postnatal care, adolescent care, immunisation, household planning, fertility, communicable illnesses administration, common and minor accidents, preventive look after NCDs, oral care, eye care, ENT, psychological well being, geriatric care and laboratory companies. Tele-consultation, wellness actions like yoga and referral companies may even be obtainable,” the well being minister stated.
The clinics might be obtainable for the general public from 9 am to 4:30 pm from Monday to Saturday. Every Namma Clinic is about up in a 1000sq ft space with separate house for a ready space, OPD session room, immunisation ward, laboratory, yoga room, medicines counter, administrative part and so forth.
The healthcare push comes with just some months to go for the meeting elections within the state.
Final month, Aam Aadmi Celebration chief Atishi aimed a dig on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) authorities within the state, the place she stated that the saffron social gathering is promising Namma Clinics on the strains of Delhi’s Mohalla Clinics. “Folks don’t want a copycat model of the Delhi mannequin of governance and wish the unique,” she had stated.