New Delhi: Delhi’s first Aam Aadmi Clinic in Peeragarhi Relief Camp is supposed to be gaining profound attention amongst the locals of Peeragarhi Relief Camp. Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated this clinic earlier this Sunday. It is the first clinic to be set up in Delhi within this year. Government would set up 1,000 such facilities within a year, as announced in its maiden budget, to make primary health care more accessible to people.“We are quite pleased with the medical facilities. Medicines are available at quite reasonable prices now”, says Rakesh Yadav, a patient at Aam Aadmi Clinic. The clinic is a peripheral health care unit which is aimed at providing better medical facility to the weaker sections. The chief minister said that the clinics will be able to cure 95 per cent of the patients and will reduce the rush at hospitals such as AIIMS, Safdarjung and GTB Hospital among others, which can cater to patients with serious ailments.
“We are intended to provide every possible facility to the patients here. The possible timings to be present here is from 8 am to 2 pm and we are quite efficient with medical checkups like Blood Pressure test, Sugar Test and ECG measure”, says Dr. Sourav, appointed Doctor at the clinic. Delhi’s Health Minister, Satyendra Jain also stated, “Ambulance services will be arranged so that if any patient is referred from these clinics to hospitals there is a facility to take him or her there.”
