Raipur 11 November 2022
Chief Minister Shri Bhupesh Baghel had envisaged that the treatment of people living in slums should be done at their homes. So far more than 33 lakh people have been treated by the medical team of Mobile Medical Unit by reaching the slum settlements through Mukhyamantri Shahari Slum Health Scheme implemented with the same objective. Under the scheme, doctors, paramedical teams, 120 mobile medical units equipped with medical equipment and medicines are now providing health facilities to the people in the slums of the urban areas of the entire state. Through this scheme, so far 7 lakh 24 thousand 855 patients have been provided with the facility of pathology test and free medicines have been given to more than 27 lakh 65 thousand 188 patients. Two lakh 54 thousand 578 workers are also among the patients benefited under the scheme.
Under the Chief Minister’s Urban Slum Health Scheme, run by the Urban Administration and Development Department of Chhattisgarh Government, so far, 45 thousand 111 camps have been organized in the slums of 169 urban bodies of the state and medicines have been given free of cost to the people. Urban Administration and Development Minister Dr. Shivkumar Dahria has directed the departmental officers that free medicines should be made available to the people of the cramped settlements of urban areas and other needy people after conducting a health check-up. Dr. Dahria is continuously monitoring the implementation of the scheme.
It is worth mentioning that to provide health facilities to the people living in slums of 14 municipal corporation areas of the state, the first phase of Mukhyamantri Shahari Slum Health Scheme was started on 01 November 2020. Under this, health check-up and treatment and drug distribution of people were started by going to slums by 60 mobile medical units. On 31 March 2022, it was expanded to the entire urban body areas of the state and 60 more mobile medical units were started.
