Healthcare set for big transformation as Jaipur gets 2 more janta clinics

JAIPUR: The city got two more janta clinics — one at Eidgah Colony and another at Azad Nagar, as health minister Raghu Sharma inaugurated them on Saturday. The state government is aiming at setting up 100 such janta clinics in the state. As of now, 12 more janta clinics are ready for inauguration in Jaipur and three in Jodhpur. These clinics are planned with an aim to bring a transformation in healthcare in the state.
On the lines of Delhi’s Mohalla Clinics, the first Janta Clinic of the state was inaugurated in Valmiki Nagar on December 18 on the completion of one-year of the government.
To add more such clinics in the city, the health minister inaugurated one Janta clinic at Van Vihar of Eidgah Colony and the other was dedicated to the people in slum area of Azad Nagar. Chief minister Ashok Gehlot, in his budget speech 2019-20, had announced such clinics in different parts of the state. But, with the financial year coming to an end soon, the state government has managed to inaugurate only three Janta clinics till Saturday. However, according to the health department sources, two more clinics will be inaugurated in the city — one in Topkhane ka Rasta and the other at Jalupura Park, which will increase the tally to five.
“The important part in Janta Clinics is that it is paperless. The data of patients is kept intact. For the next visit, a patient will have to give his reference number as the data is already available at the clinic. Based on the data, a health card will be issued to the patients,” said Sharma, after inaugurating the clinics.
Health department’s additional chief secretary Rohit Kumar Singh said, “On the first day, the OPD at Van Vihar colony registered 149 patients and 114 were registered at Azad Nagar.”
However, in Jodhpur, three clinics are ready for inauguration. Among the three, one is located at Ayurveda Hospital Bhawan near Mandore railway station, another at Baiji Ka Talab in a municipal corporation census centre and the third one in a school building at Masuriya. The clinics are planned in such as a way that all the three Jodhpur’s assembly constituencies — Sardarpura, Jodhpur city, Soorsagar — get equal share.
Each clinic will have an OPD chamber, medicine counter, patient waiting area and a drug distribution counter. According to the health department officials, more than 300 drugs for free distribution to the patients are made available at Janta Clinics, which has facilities for referral of patients where a medical officer, two nurses, one lady health worker, pharmacist and a grade IV employee will be at the service.