Karnataka Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao lauds Mohalla Clinic, later calls it ‘overhyped’
1 year, 7 months ago

Karnataka Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao lauds Mohalla Clinic, later calls it ‘overhyped’

The Hindu  

Hours after visiting a Mohalla Clinic and praising the Delhi government’s primary healthcare model on Friday, Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao changed his stance and called the facilities “overhyped”. In response, the Aam Aadmi Party said its Karnataka team visited a Namma Clinic run by the Congress government in Mr. Rao’s Assembly constituency and found that it “lacks good facilities”. Earlier in the day, Mr. Rao accompanied Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj to a Mohalla Clinic at Panchsheel Park and told reporters that the model was functioning very well. Delhi will also learn from the good work done by Karnataka govt.” However, hours later, Mr. Rao said in a post on X, “Visited a Mohalla Clinic in Delhi with hardly any people there.

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Former Health Minister Satyendar Jain opposes mohalla clinics’ closure, calls it a ‘blow to capital’s healthcare’
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1 week, 2 days ago

Former Health Minister Satyendar Jain opposes mohalla clinics’ closure, calls it a ‘blow to capital’s healthcare’

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: Former Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Friday strongly criticised the reported plan of the BJP government in Delhi to shut down 250 mohalla clinics, calling it a move that would paralyse the city’s healthcare infrastructure. Addressing a press conference, Jain urged the government to increase rather than reduce the number of neighbourhood clinics, which were introduced by the …

Mohalla Clinics Row Intensifies In Delhi As BJP, AAP Clash Over CAG Report, Govt Plans To Close 250 Clinics
1 week, 2 days ago

Mohalla Clinics Row Intensifies In Delhi As BJP, AAP Clash Over CAG Report, Govt Plans To Close 250 Clinics

ABP News  

The controversy over Delhi’s Mohalla Clinics has escalated, with the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Aam Aadmi Party trading sharp barbs. Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva attacked former health minister Satyendar Jain over alleged irregularities highlighted in the Comptroller and Auditor General report, while AAP leaders slammed the BJP government’s pan to shut down 250 Mohalla Clinics. AAP leaders cited …

Mohalla clinics without toilets, hospitals without ICUs: Key highlights of CAG report on Delhi healthcare
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Mohalla clinics without toilets, hospitals without ICUs: Key highlights of CAG report on Delhi healthcare

Live Mint  

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Friday tabled the Comptroller and Auditor General report on ‘Public Health Infrastructure and Management of Health Services’ in the Delhi Assembly. According to the 208-page CAG report, the AAP-led government in Delhi ‘grossly’ mismanaged the COVID pandemic in the national capital using only ₹582.84 crore of the total ₹787.91 crore released by the central …

Delhi’s rented Mohalla Clinics to be shut down
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Delhi’s rented Mohalla Clinics to be shut down

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Delhi government is moving to close down Mohalla Clinics currently operating from rented premises amid allegations that many of these properties are linked to individuals associated with the Aam Aadmi Party. According to sources, 177 of the city’s 523 Mohalla Clinics — nearly 34 per cent — are functioning in rented spaces, with suspicions that the rent …

BJP-led Delhi govt directs action plan on water, air quality; seeks report on mohalla clinics
3 weeks, 1 day ago

BJP-led Delhi govt directs action plan on water, air quality; seeks report on mohalla clinics

The Hindu  

A day after its formation, the BJP-led Delhi government headed by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta directed a summer action plan for water supply and air quality, and sought a report on mohalla clinics. Free bus service for women will continue Delhi's Health and Transport Minister Pankaj Kumar Singh assured that the free bus service for women will continue under the …

AAP's flagship Mohalla clinics all set for facelift under BJP’s regime
1 month ago

AAP's flagship Mohalla clinics all set for facelift under BJP’s regime

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: The AAP government’s flagship scheme, mohalla clinics, is poised for structural and operational reforms under the newly elected BJP administration, officials said. According to officials, several key administrative appointments, including those in the National Capital Civil Services Authority, have been pending due to the absence of meetings for a prolonged period. With the BJP now in power at …

Reality of AAP's Mohalla Clinics: What Patients Across 7 Locations Have to Say
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Reality of AAP's Mohalla Clinics: What Patients Across 7 Locations Have to Say

The Quint  

Kripa Shankar, a 50 year-old salesman at bookstore, located at a distance of a km from the clinic, said he often visits the GK-1 clinic due to the proximity of the clinic to his workplace. If a medicine is not available an alternative is given.” Shankar, who is a resident of Shahdara also stated that the Shahdara Mohalla Clinic functions …

CBI to probe AAP’s flagship healthcare project ’Mohalla Clinics’
1 year, 2 months ago

CBI to probe AAP’s flagship healthcare project ’Mohalla Clinics’

Live Mint  

Crises loom over the Aam Aadmi Party ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha election. On Thursday, Delhi's Lt Governor V K Saxena, who is also a close aide of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, recommended a CBI probe into alleged fake lab tests and 'ghost patients' at mohalla clinics in the national capital. According to statement form LG's office, "grave" fraudulent …

Errant staff at Mohalla clinics taken off duty
1 year, 5 months ago

Errant staff at Mohalla clinics taken off duty

Hindustan Times  

Delhi health minister Saurabh Bhardwaj on Wednesday said 26 staff, including seven doctors, deployed at seven mohalla clinics have been taken off duty after they were found manipulating the attendance system at the clinics. Following public complaints that doctors and staff arrive late, we conducted an investigation into their attendance at seven mohalla clinics, during which the manipulation came to …

Delhi CM opens 5 new Mohalla Clinics; says won’t let anyone stop the work of the people
1 year, 6 months ago

Delhi CM opens 5 new Mohalla Clinics; says won’t let anyone stop the work of the people

The Hindu  

In a veiled attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said he would not let anyone stop the work of the people of Delhi, as he inaugurated five new Mohalla Clinics in the city. But I assure every Delhiite that I will not let any work stop.” Announcing the opening of five new Mohalla Clinics, …

BJP's ‘who needs enemies’ dig at AAP as Congress's Sandeep Dikshit reacts to mohalla clinics row
1 year, 7 months ago

BJP's ‘who needs enemies’ dig at AAP as Congress's Sandeep Dikshit reacts to mohalla clinics row

Hindustan Times  

Amid a war of words between the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress over 'mohalla clinics' in Delhi, senior Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit on Saturday said he could have shown the “real truth of Arvind Kejriwal's governance” to visiting Karnataka minister Dinesh Gundu Rao. Karnataka health minister Dinesh Gundu Rao accompanied by Delhi health minister Saurabh Bharadwaj visited a Mohalla …

AAP hits out as K’taka minister first praises mohalla clinics, later calls them ‘overhyped’
1 year, 7 months ago

AAP hits out as K’taka minister first praises mohalla clinics, later calls them ‘overhyped’

Hindustan Times  

Hours after praising the Aam Aadmi Party government’s mohalla clinic, Karnataka health minister and Congress leader Dinesh Gundu Rao made a very sudden volte-face and called the initiative “overhyped”, saying he was left “disappointed” after visiting one such clinic in the Capital. Delhi health minister Saurabh Bharadwaj and Karnataka health minister Dinesh Gundu Rao at a Mohalla Clinic, in New …

Delhi mohalla clinic ‘overhyped’: Karnataka health minister ‘disappointed’ after visit
1 year, 7 months ago

Delhi mohalla clinic ‘overhyped’: Karnataka health minister ‘disappointed’ after visit

Hindustan Times  

Karnataka health minister Dinesh Gundu Rao on Friday called the flagship Mohalla clinics in Delhi ‘not a game-changer’ after he visited the Aam Aadmi Party government-run primary health centres in the national capital. “It is not like the way it is made out to be.” Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj and Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao at a Mohalla …

Karnataka government begins 108 Namma clinics in Bengaluru
2 years, 1 month ago

Karnataka government begins 108 Namma clinics in Bengaluru

Hindustan Times  

The Karnataka government on Tuesday launched 108 ‘Namma Clinics’ in Bengaluru. Karnataka government begins 108 Namma clinics in Bengaluru Speaking with the reporters, Basavaraj Bommai said, "Namma clinic is a revolutionary step. Earlier, there used to be consulting doctors, this concept has by and large gone, and now if anything happens, the poor will have to go to big hospitals, …

Punjab: CM Mann, AAP chief Kejriwal dedicate 400 new mohalla clinics to people
2 years, 1 month ago

Punjab: CM Mann, AAP chief Kejriwal dedicate 400 new mohalla clinics to people

Live Mint  

Bhagwant Mann, the chief minister of Punjab, along with Aam Aadmi Party chief Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, dedicated 400 new "Aam Aadmi" clinics to the state's residents on Friday. SSpeaking at the event, AAP leader Kejriwal expressed his happiness at the announcement that Punjab's AAP administration opened 500 mohalla clinics in just 10 months. Mohalla Clinics Mohalla Clinics, which were …

Portable mohalla clinics envisioned for JJ colonies, dense areas in Delhi
3 years, 6 months ago

Portable mohalla clinics envisioned for JJ colonies, dense areas in Delhi

Hindustan Times  

The Delhi government is constructing two mohalla clinics inside portable shipping containers in the city's Shakurbasti area, which the authorities plan to replicate in dense cluster colonies where creating health infrastructure in a dedicated building is a challenge owing to space constraints. Mohalla clinics is one of the flagship initiatives of the Arvind Kejriwal government to boost the primary healthcare …

Delhi gets 100 new mohalla clinics
5 years, 4 months ago

Delhi gets 100 new mohalla clinics

India TV News  

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday inaugurated 100 newly-constructed mohalla clinics, a primary health service aimed at providing medical facility to people in their neighbourhood. Speaking at an event in Wazirabad here, the chief minister said that next month, 100 more mohalla clinics will come up and the AAP government plans to set up such health facility on every …

Mohalla clinics served 16.24 million people in four years: Delhi health minister
5 years, 6 months ago

Mohalla clinics served 16.24 million people in four years: Delhi health minister

Hindustan Times  

For 15-year-old Sia Saini, the mohalla clinic in her neighbourhood is proving to be of great help. The mohalla clinics have provided outpatient department services to more than 16.24 million people in four years since the launch of the first clinic in July 2015, Delhi’s health minister Satyendar Jain said on Friday. Aimed at providing primary healthcare to Delhi residents, …

What's ailing mohalla clinics?
5 years, 8 months ago

What's ailing mohalla clinics?

India Today  

The Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP government in Delhi had promised free doctor consultation, free diagnosis, free medicine and free health checkups for the underprivileged or middle class while launching mohalla clinics across the national capital. The party, has, in fact, claimed that the amount of work which it has done in the health care sector, including the mohalla clinics, is sufficient …

AAP terms Ayushman Bharat scheme a 'jumla', asks why DDA has not allotted land for mohalla clinics
5 years, 9 months ago

AAP terms Ayushman Bharat scheme a 'jumla', asks why DDA has not allotted land for mohalla clinics

Firstpost  

The AAP’s reaction came after Harsh Vardhan Saturday rebutted Arvind Kejriwal’s claim that the AAP government’s health scheme is ’ten times bigger and comprehensive’ than the Ayushman Bharat programme New Delhi: The AAP on Sunday termed the BJP-led Centre’s flagship Ayushman Bharat health insurance programme a ‘jumla’ and alleged that the scheme is being imposed on the people of Delhi. …

In four years, AAP opened 189 Mohalla Clinics against 1,000 target
6 years, 2 months ago

In four years, AAP opened 189 Mohalla Clinics against 1,000 target

The Quint  

By Nivedita Singh New Delhi, Jan 15 The Aam Aadmi Party, which took power in Delhi four years ago with a promise to build 1,000 Mohalla Clinics in the national capital, has managed to provide only 189 of the widely-praised clinics, blaming the central government for the slow pace of execution. "Mohalla Clinics have been conceptualised as a mechanism to …

Delhi govt's Mohalla Clinics hit another roadblock; parents write to L-G against using schools, parks
7 years, 4 months ago

Delhi govt's Mohalla Clinics hit another roadblock; parents write to L-G against using schools, parks

Firstpost  

The All India Parents Association has submitted a letter to the Lieutenant Governor urging him to restrain the proposed Mohalla Clinics in schools and parks The Mohalla Clinic project in Delhi faces another hurdle with parents objecting to the Delhi government’s decision to set them up in government schools and parks. Only a fortnight ago, the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government …

Absent doctors? No medicines? Now volunteers will monitor AAP’s mohalla clinics in Delhi
8 years ago

Absent doctors? No medicines? Now volunteers will monitor AAP’s mohalla clinics in Delhi

Hindustan Times  

The AAP government will recruit volunteers from the community to monitor the workings of the mohalla clinics in their neighbourhood. The requirement for applying to be a volunteer is “passion for serving the society without remuneration,” the government pamphlet says. “The volunteers will be a part of the management committee of the mohalla clinic in the neighbourhood and will be …

AAP’s Mohalla Clinic another scam in the making?
8 years ago

AAP’s Mohalla Clinic another scam in the making?

Op India  

AAP had started Mohalla Clinics in order to provide Delhi citizens with a near the home cure for simple aliments. Now these clinics have come under the Vigilance Department’s scanner after they received complaints that the Mohalla Clinics’ doctors were seeing a very high number of patients during their stipulated clinic hours, which was practically not possible. It is reported …

Two years of AAP govt: Are mohalla clinics a game changer in Delhi?
8 years, 1 month ago

Two years of AAP govt: Are mohalla clinics a game changer in Delhi?

Hindustan Times  

Over five months, 110 mohalla clinics have treated 8 lakh patients, as per the government data. With, only around 110 mohalla clinics functional, the AAP government has sought to take refuge in its infamous tussle with the lieutenant governor and Centre. Apart from routine out-patient clinic, we provide immunisation to children, DOTS centre for TB treatment and counselling for male …

Delhi L-G clears 300 mohalla clinics on govt school premises
8 years, 1 month ago

Delhi L-G clears 300 mohalla clinics on govt school premises

Hindustan Times  

Delhi’s lieutenant governor Anil Baijal has cleared the AAP government’s project to set up 300 mohalla clinics on the premises of Delhi government schools. “These mohalla clinics will be open to general public only after the school hours and the entrance for them will also be separate,” said a Delhi government official. The 300 clinics are a part of the …

Seven things to know about Delhi’s mohalla clinics praised by world leaders
8 years, 1 month ago

Seven things to know about Delhi’s mohalla clinics praised by world leaders

Hindustan Times  

After former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, the AAP government’s mohalla clinics have got praise from former director general of World Health Organisation Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland. In Delhi, 110 clinics have treated 1.5 million people between April and December, shows latest available data. The mohalla clinics were started by the AAP government in their first year in office to …

After Kofi Annan, another world leader praises AAP govt’s mohalla clinics
8 years, 1 month ago

After Kofi Annan, another world leader praises AAP govt’s mohalla clinics

Hindustan Times  

Mohalla clinics may not just bring universal healthcare to Delhi’s residents, it may also partially solve the problem of anti-microbial resistance, former World Health Organisation director general and Gro Harlem Brundtland said on Thursday. The praise for the project came at the ongoing Prince Mahidol Award Conference at Bangkok, Thailand after a presentation by Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain. Former …

‘Mohalla clinics a model to scale up healthcare in India’
8 years, 1 month ago

‘Mohalla clinics a model to scale up healthcare in India’

India TV News  

Delhi government’s ‘Mohalla Clinics’ has come in for praise by a global body chaired by former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan. Kofi Annan has written a letter to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on behalf of ‘The Elders’, an organisation of independent global leaders founded by anti-apartheid icon and former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela, suggesting scaling …

Mohalla Clinics: Kofi Annan praise fine, but will Delhi govt fix these 4 issues?
8 years, 1 month ago

Mohalla Clinics: Kofi Annan praise fine, but will Delhi govt fix these 4 issues?

Hindustan Times  

Kofi Annan’s praise for AAP government’s Mohalla Clinics sent Twitterati in tizzy. Read: Delhi’s mohalla clinics popular among locals: Lancet report Annan also suggested some steps to reform the project. His recommendations include — undertaking a formal evaluation of the Mohalla Clinics programme, improving management information systems for maintaining patients’ records and better monitoring, and scaling up preventive and community …

Kofi Annan lauds AAP’s Mohalla Clinics project, suggests reforms
8 years, 1 month ago

Kofi Annan lauds AAP’s Mohalla Clinics project, suggests reforms

Hindustan Times  

Former Secretary-General of United Nations, Kofi Annan, has commended Delhi government’s flagship Mohalla Clinic project that is aimed at providing free primary healthcare to city residents closer home. In particular, you have scaled up the provision of universal free health services, most notably in providing free primary healthcare services through your new Mohalla Clinics. The UHC policy memorandum -- containing …

Delhi’s mohalla clinics popular among locals: Lancet report
8 years, 3 months ago

Delhi’s mohalla clinics popular among locals: Lancet report

Hindustan Times  

The Delhi government’s ‘mohalla clinics’ scheme, which aims to provide better primary care coverage in the national capital, is proving to be “popular” with residents, offering “key advantage” to the beneficiaries, according to a report published in The Lancet journal. Read: Eight lakh treated in five months at Delhi mohalla clinics “We get patients from nearby areas, about 100 to …

Mohalla clinic: AAP offers affordable healthcare model at doorstep
8 years, 6 months ago

Mohalla clinic: AAP offers affordable healthcare model at doorstep

Live Mint  

New Delhi: When a doctor at a mohalla clinic in Todapur in West Delhi prescribed medicines for 10-year-old Rohit, who was suffering from fever, his parents did not need to visit the pharmacist to get the medicines. The patient is getting medicines through the machine which means it’s coming from the correct source,” said Rishi Bal, a doctor at the …

AAP's mohalla clinics are proof that healthcare in India doesn't need to be a luxury
8 years, 6 months ago

AAP's mohalla clinics are proof that healthcare in India doesn't need to be a luxury

Firstpost  

The Mohalla Clinic is a revolutionary project by the Delhi government, that aims to provide free primary healthcare to all by opening 1000 such clinics. The mohalla clinic in Laxmi Nagar is only one part of a revolutionary project by the Delhi government, that aims to provide free primary healthcare to all by opening 1000 such free clinics throughout the …

Eight lakh treated in five months at Delhi mohalla clinics
8 years, 7 months ago

Eight lakh treated in five months at Delhi mohalla clinics

Hindustan Times  

Almost eight lakh patients were treated in five months at the 105 mohalla clinics opened by the AAP government, says out-patient data data released on Wednesday. These neighbourhood clinics were set up as a pilot project for the 1,000 clinics that the government had promised to open by the end of the year to improve primary healthcare and reduce the …

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