Kishan Singh Bhorde 

Bengaluru: The success of the Aam Aadmi Party government's ‘Mohalla Clinics’ in Delhi become an inspiration for Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai to establish ‘Namma Clinics’ in major cities in the state including all wards of BBMP. 

In his maiden Budget 2022-23, Mr. Bommai announced the establishment of Namma Clinics in all wards in Bengaluru, these clinics will cater the services of detection of non-communication diseases and of referral of higher treatment to specialists will be provided.

 300 Women Health Centers will be established in the year 2022-23 under National Health Mission. They will provide advice for women related health issues and also function as women welfare centers, announced in Budget.

To provide well equipped medical facilities at the taluka level, 7 taluka hospitals will be upgraded to 100 bedded hospitals.  The provision of services of free Dialysis will be further strengthened by increasing the

existing 30,000 Dialysis cycles per month to 60,000 cycles. For this purpose, an additional grant of Rs.20 crore will be provided, CM assured in the budget.

Cardiac related treatment will be provided at the taluka level itself to the rural people by mapping 75 taluka hospitals of the State with Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, says in the Budget.

Action will be taken to ensure menstrual hygiene in the girl students. Under the “Shuchi” scheme, sanitary napkins are being distributed to around 19 lakh girl students and to improvise upon this, we will join hands with Self Help Groups to distribute menstrual cups in Dakshina Kannada and Chamarajanagara districts on an experimental basis on the lines of the State of Madhya Pradesh, Mr. Bommai assured.

Mukyamantri Arogya Vahini:  Mobile Clinics will be established under the scheme “Mukyamantri Arogya Vahini” at a cost of Rs.11 crore in Bidar, Chamarajanagara, Haveri and Chikkamagalur

districts to provide excellent medical services at the doorsteps in rural areas. To provide quick specialist medical services at the level of taluka itself, services of expert and specialist doctors in the medical universities of the same district will be provided through telemedicine, Mr. Bommai stated in the Budget.

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said that steps would be taken to establish Intensive Care Units of 25 beds in 19 district hospitals and six beds in 100 taluk hospitals at an estimated cost of Rs 60 crore.

The CM also announced the state government’s ambitious plan to upgrade 250 primary health centres in the state as Model Centres. He said that four regional food safety laboratories would be upgraded at an expenditure of Rs 2 crore. He announced that an antimicrobial resistance unit in the Health and Family Welfare Department would start functioning.

To detect hereditary metabolic diseases at the initial stages in neonates, the CM announced the establishment of laboratories in Ballari and Bengaluru at an expenditure of Rs. 10 crore. He said in four divisions of the state, the "Mothers’ Breast Milk Bank" will be established at Rs.2.5 crore.

The CM announced the launch of the "Chiguru" programme to promote the scanning of pregnant women at an expenditure of Rs 10 crore. CM repeated an old project also. He announced that the government would upgrade Ayurvedic College in Shivamogga district as an Ayush University, which was also announced by his predecessor in the last budget. To protect mothers and children from malnutrition, the CM announced the launch of the "Poshane Mattu Jeevanopaya" programme based on the Indian system of medicine at an expenditure of Rs.5 crore.

Bommai announced the commencement of regional cancer treatment centres in Shivamogga and Mysuru at an expenditure of Rs. 100 crore. He stated that three new well-equipped mobile laboratories to detect cancer in women will be put into service at a cost of Rs. 11 crore.

Davanagere will house a 50-bed capacity sub-centre of the Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology, which will come up at an expense of Rs. 20 crore.