Raipur, 02 June 2023
Chhattisgarh government’s ambitious scheme, Chief Minister Urban Slum Health Scheme, provides free health care access to urban people through mobile medical units. As per the initiative of Chief Minister Mr. Bhupesh Baghel, poor families living in slums in urban areas of Chhattisgarh are provided with no cost treatment facilities near their homes, and this scheme has benefitted nearly 49,5,123 people.
Under the Chief Minister Urban Slum Health Scheme, 120 mobile medical units equipped with doctors, paramedical teams, medical equipment, and medicines provide health facilities to the people in the slum areas. Pathology tests were performed on 12,94,263 people, and free medicines were given to 42,06,604 people under the scheme.This scheme is run by the Urban Administration and Development Department,and has organized 64,507 camps to provide treatment in 169 urban bodies of the state.
It is worth mentioning that the first phase of this scheme was started on 01 November 2020 with 60 mobile medical units to provide health facilities to the people living in slums of 14 municipal corporation areas of the state. Keeping in view the success of this scheme, the scope of the scheme was expanded to all urban bodies of the state on March 31, 2022, with the addition of 60 new mobile medical units. The initiative eliminates the need for ordinary people to visit hospitals by providing free health screenings, treatment, and medications close to their homes.
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