Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday flagged off 78 mobile medical units that will provide health services to people living in hilly remote areas, areas which are far off from health centres, areas with poor transport connectivity, and in areas which are mostly inhabited by the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes people.
According to a press release from the Health Department, each mobile unit has been equipped with medical equipment, drugs and consumables as per the National Mobile Medical Unit Service guidelines. Each unit has an MBBS doctor, a staff nurse, a pharmacist, a laboratory technician, an ANM, and a driver. For each unit, in a taluk, 13 to 15 eligible villages have been identified for service. The mobile medical unit will visit these villages at least four or five times a month, and will provide services. From Monday to Saturday, the unit will visit one village from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and another village from 2.30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
From next year, all mobile medical units will be fitted with GPS. Also, 50 more units will be added to the fleet by the end of this year at a cost of Rs 48.39 crore, the release stated.
