Chief Minister had flagged off these 8 ambulances during his Kanker tour on January 28
Raipur, 4 February 2021. Chhattisgarh Government is making consistent efforts to provide free health services to common people. With Chief Minister Haat-Bazaar Clinic Yojana, hospitals are now reaching out to the public. Through this scheme, free checkup and treatment facilities along with the medicines required are being made available even in the remotest villages and forest areas of the state. Chief Minister had flagged off eight new ambulances for Chief Minister Haat-Bazaar Clinic Scheme in Kanker on January 28. Two of these ambulances have been sent to Koyalibeda block and one each to the remaining blocks, for providing health services to people in Haat bazaars of Kanker district.
On the initiative of Health Minister Mr. T.S.Singhdev, eight new ambulances have been purchased for Kanker district at a cost of Rs one crore 54 lakh, with the objective to reach more and more people under Chief Minister’s Haat-Bazar Clinic Scheme. With the help of these ambulances, the mobile medical team of the Health Department has treated 382 people in 18 haat-Bazaars in seven days between 28 January to 3 February. During this period, health department teams provided medical facilities four haat-Bazaars of the three blocks including Charama, Durgakondul and Koylibeda, two each in Narharpur and Kanker and in one haat-bazaar each of Antagarh and Bhanupratappur.
Utilizing these new ambulances, mobile medical teams have provided treatment and medicines to nearly 130 people in Durgakondul development block, 53 in Antelagarh in Koyelebheda, 45 in Kanker, 42 in Bhanupratappur, 35 in Charama and 29 in Narharpur, in past one week. During this period, local people of Sulangi, Chotibetia, Asebeda and Mayapur (PV-18) in Koylibeda development block, Mainpur, Gandagouri, Bhilai and Tikrapara in Charama block, Jhitkatola of Durgakondul, Taraighotia, Hatsdal Karaki, Mandabhari and Badal of Narharpur, Malkarukhuna of Kanker, In Kisekodo of Antagarh and Tarandul Haat-Bazar of Bhanupratappur, were provided free checkup and medicines.