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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah connected Friday flagged disconnected 81 ‘Arogya Sethu’ Mobile Health Units (MHUs) aimed astatine delivering superior healthcare services to radical surviving successful remote, inaccessible, wood and hilly regions of Karnataka.
Launching the units successful beforehand of the expansive steps of the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha successful Belagavi, the Chief Minister said the inaugural was intended to guarantee that prime healthcare reaches citizens who person truthful acold remained extracurricular the ceremonial wellness system.
The mobile units, rolled retired nether the taxable “Healthcare astatine the remotest village”, volition supply doorstep healthcare services successful hard-to-reach areas, including 32 Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST)-reserved constituencies. Of the full 81 units, 49 are being implemented nether the National Health Mission (NHM), portion 32 are funded done the State government’s Scheduled Caste Sub-Plan and Tribal Sub-Plan (SCSP/TSP) allocations.
Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said each mobile wellness portion volition beryllium staffed with an MBBS doctor, a caregiver and a laboratory technician. The services offered volition see outpatient consultations, basal diagnostic tests utilizing accelerated diagnostic kits, escaped medicines, referral services and assemblage wellness monitoring. The units volition besides enactment the implementation of nationalist and State wellness programmes successful distant regions, the Minister said.
The MHUs volition beryllium implemented astatine the territory level with decentralised monitoring and supervision, enabling flexibility based connected section needs and geographical conditions. Officials said the units would besides beryllium deployed during aesculapian emergencies and disasters.
As per the operational plan, each portion volition behaviour aesculapian camps successful 2 to 3 villages a time connected fixed schedules, with anterior intimation to residents. The vehicles person been procured connected an outsourcing basis, portion quality resources volition beryllium engaged connected a contractual basis.
Officials said the operational outgo has been pegged astatine ₹1.92 lakh per portion per month, with an yearly expenditure of ₹1,686.24 lakh for each 81 units. Of the total, 41 vehicles person been allotted to the North Karnataka region.
Raichur has been allotted the highest fig of mobile wellness units (eight), followed by Uttara Kannada (six), Kalaburagi and Dakshina Kannada (five each). Belagavi, Chamarajanagar, Kodagu, Mysuru, Udupi and Vijayanagara districts person been allotted 4 units each.
