Delhi government to open special women mohalla clinics

• The Delhi government on March 9, 2021 announced that special women mohalla clinics will be opened across the city in the next financial year to offer free gynaecological and other medical care services to them within walking distance from their homes.
• Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who also holds the finance portfolio, made the announcement while presenting the government’s annual budget for year 2021-22.
• Special women mohalla clinics will be opened across the city in the next financial year to offer free gynaecological and other medical care services to them within walking distance from their homes.
• Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who also holds the finance portfolio, made the announcement while presenting the government’s annual budget for year 2021-22, in which Rs 9,934 crore has been allocated to the healthcare sector.
• In the first phase, 100 ‘Mahila Mohalla Clinics’ are proposed to be established in different parts of Delhi, which will be progressively increased to at least one clinic in each ward.
• This is taken in the direction of keeping half of its population respectfully healthy, which will be the most important step so far in the history of 75 years of independent India.
• For a step such as this, what better time can there be, than the 75th anniversary of our independence.
• The step has been taken to make gynaecological and other medical care services free and accessible to women.
• Many women can afford services of a specialist, but in the middle class and lower income families, they many times fail to reach to a gynaecologist.
• It is a fact about our society that many women tend to neglect their own illnesses.
• The result is that many women live with ailment, assuming it their destiny.