`Talking more, working less lead to ‘Bihar-like situations”
“For this we are going to pass a budget for 1,000 mohalla clinics tomorrow (Tuesday)”, he said. He had earlier shared the dais with Mr Kumar at a function in Delhi.
Before the inauguration of the clinic, which was earlier a facility exclusively for ladies and maternity care, east MCD staff have been seen expeditiously cleansing up the world, reeking of rotten waste.
Locals complained that more often than not rubbish lies littered on streets and bylanes of the locality.
After congratulating his Bihar counterpart and JD-U leader Nitish Kumar on the “historic victory”, Kejriwal referred to the rising prices of food items.
Kejriwal additionally promised to relocate the rubbish dump, situated proper reverse the polyclinic, after native MLA Anil Bajpai made a request to this impact on stage. “You look for suitable land and the relocation shall be done”, Kejriwal said.
“This will consist of Mohalla Clinics, Poly clinics (multi-speciality clinic), Multi speciality hospitals (earlier called secondary level hospitals) and Super speciality hospitals (earlier called tertiary level hospitals)”, official also said.
The government has proposed to set-up a three-tier public health care system in the Capital, the primary centres will be called the Aam Aadmi Mohalla Clinics, the first one was opened at Peeragarhi in West Delhi.
“What Lovely-ji could not do in 20 years, Bajpeyi-ji did in a matter if eight months”, Mr Kejriwal said.
Explaining the reason behind setting up such clinics, the official said, “The government hopes that people will not have to walk for more than 10-14 minutes to access primary healthcare”.