RAIPUR: The
Mobile Medical Units
(MMUs) under the Mukhyamantri Slum Swasthya Yojana are not only providing regular check-up-treatment-medicine to those living in slums in urban areas of
Chhattisgarh
but also were helpful in controlling the coronavirus infection.
Since the inception of the scheme, till now ten thousand camps have been organised under this scheme. Free check-up, treatment and medicine have been provided to about five lakh patients.
Mukhyamantri Slum Swasthya Yojana was launched by Chhattisgarh Chief Minister
Bhupesh Baghel in the presence of MP Rahul Gandhi on the State Foundation Day 01 November 2020.
As per
Urban Health
officials, as many as 60 MMUs equipped with modern equipment are providing
health services
in all the 14 municipal corporations of the state. In these mobile medical units,
MBBS
doctors are providing health facilities to the patients by setting up camps in about 1600 slums. Along with MBBS doctors, pharmacists are also available for free distribution of medicines, lab technician for free lab tests, ANM and MMU driver are available to serve patients in the camp.
This scheme, which provides door-to-door treatment in Para-Mohalla, has so far treated about 05 lakh patients. Out of these patients, free lab test has been done for about 1.20 lakh. About 41 types of different lab tests are done in MMU- including blood, excreta, urine, sputum, tuberculosis, thyroid, malaria, typhoid etc. are examined by skilled lab technicians with state-of-the-art machines. About four lakh forty thousand patients have availed services from pharmacists on the basis of doctor's prescriptions, taking advantage of free drug delivery service in MMU. Availability of 200 types of medicines like Paracetamol, Brufen, Metformin, Atenolol, B-complex, Iron, Folic acid, Cephalexin, Amoxicillin, Limci, ORS, Tetanus injection, Rabies injection etc. is being ensured in MMU.
There is also a provision of blood-pressure measuring machine, sugar test machine, ECG machine, oxygen cylinder etc. in MMU vehicles of slum swasthya yojana.
In Raipur about 1.26 lakh people have availed health services from 15 MMU, in Durg about 35,000 from 4 MMU, in Bhilai about 34,000 from 3 MMU, in Rajnandgaon about 33,000 from 4 MMU, in Bilaspur about 51 ,000 from 4 MMU, in Korba about 8 MMU 55,000, around 33,000 from 4 MMU in Raigarh, around 26,000 from 4 MMU in Ambikapur, in Jagdalpur around 28,000 from 4 MMU, in Chirmiri around 11,000 from 2 MMU, 18000 people availed the services in each two-two MMUs in Risali and Dhamtari, 9000 people availed in 2 MMUs in Bhilai-Charoda and 17000 people availed medicals services in two MMU of Birgaon.
In a similar mobile medicals services under the scheme of Dai-Didi Clinic for women, As many as 7958 women are treated through 163 camps in Raipur city. Similarly, 9802 women were treated through 165 camps in Bhilai city and 11858 women were treated through 158 camps in Bilaspur city. Female MBBS in MM of Dai-Didi Clinic Doctors, women NMAs, women pharmacists provide their services, due to which women patients do not hesitate to get their treatment. This is the only women special MMU project in the country, said Urban Department officials.
Dai -Didi clinics were inaugurated in Chhattisgarh on 19th November, 2020, on the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
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