Bengaluru: The State budget has proposed to set up 243 Namma Clinics across the city. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has proposed establishing 438 Mohalla Clinics around the State, emulating Delhi’s Mohalla Clinic model.
“These clinics will provide services for noncommunicable disease detection and referral for higher treatment to specialists,” CM Bommai said.
Namma Clinics, which will be a tier below primary health centres, will have a medical officer, a staff nurse, and two assistants. The 243 clinics will be in addition to the 160 existing urban primary health centres within the BBMP’s limits.
According to sources, a 500-bed unit will also be added to Bengaluru’s Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital. In addition, Vani Vilas Hospital will have a foetal medicine and neonatology department.
CM Bommai has proposed establishing a Rs. 50 Crore Kidwai Regional Cancer Centre in Belagavi to provide timely and affordable treatment. The government has also proposed establishing an infusion centre at 10 government medical colleges to deliver chemotherapy. In addition, in each of the 100 aspirational taluks, one primary health centre with a higher workload will be identified. In two years, at a cost of Rs. 1,000 Crore, it would be transformed to 25-bed model community health centres.
