Establishing mohalla clinics, or primary healthcare centres, is Delhi government’s

flagship scheme. After coming to power in 2015, the Aam Admi Party (AAP) had
promised to construct 1000 mohalla clinics across the city in an attempt to boost
the city’s healthcare infrastructure. However, only around 160 clinics are
currently functioning in the city.

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Delhi Mohalla Clinics Have Patients Raving About it, But Doctors
Have a Sad Tale to Tell
Establishing mohalla clinics, or primary healthcare centres, is Delhi government’s flagship scheme.
After coming to power in 2015, the Aam Admi Party (AAP) had promised to construct 1000
mohalla clinics across the city in an attempt to boost the city’s healthcare infrastructure. However,
only around 160 clinics are currently functioning in the city.
Updated on: August 3, 2018, 3:49 PM IST
Gaurav Mehta , CNN-News18

“Pehle private hospital se dawai leni padhti thi, aur bachon ko aaram bhi nahi aata tha” (Earlier we had
to buy medicines from private hospitals and the children didn’t even feel better), says Sona, 29, who
travels from Delhi’s Bhrampuri to Nangal Raya mohalla clinic every time she needs to see a doctor.

Open drains, heaps of garbage and narrow, claustrophobic streets of Delhi’s Nangal Raya village — a
place which even the GPS fails to navigate — stands in stark contrast to the three-bedroom expanse of
the mohalla clinic situated within.
Close to 80 patients visit this clinic daily, except on a Sunday. What they get is free doctor consultations,
tests and medicines.

Every mohalla clinic has a doctor, a technician for uploading patients’ Aadhaar details and a lab assistant
for collecting blood samples and disbursing medicines. The clinic works from 8 AM to 2 PM.