YSR Village Health Clinics will be equipped with 105 types of medicines, lab facilities to conduct 14 tests and 936 mobile medical units.
Family Doctors would extend free medical treatment to people suffering from both communicable and non-communicable disease. (Supplied)
Taking healthcare to the people’s doorstep, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday, 6 April, formally launched the “Family Doctor” programme, in which qualified doctors in 10,032 YSR Village Health Clinics would extend preventive healthcare to the needy.
Addressing a public meeting on the occasion near Chilakaluripet town in Guntur district, the chief minister said that the Family Doctor programme would herald revolutionary changes in extending healthcare to the needy.
Besides visiting the bed-ridden and treating them, family doctors would extend free medical treatment to people suffering from both communicable and non-communicable diseases, and to lactating mothers and anaemic school children and women, he said.
Jagan said that with one primary health centre (PHC) serving 2,500 people, the Family Doctor programme would soon turn Andhra Pradesh into a role model for other states in the realm of preventive healthcare.
ప్రివెన్షన్ ఈజ్ బెటర్ దేన్ క్యూర్. జబ్బులు ముదరకుండా… రాకుండా కాపాడేందుకు ఈ ఫ్యామిలీ డాక్టర్ కాన్సెఫ్ట్ను తీసుకువచ్చాం.
ప్రివెంటివ్ కేర్లో ఫ్యామిలీ డాక్టర్ రూపేణా… తీసుకువస్తున్న ఈ మార్పు దేశ చరిత్రలోనే ఒక రోల్ మోడల్గా నిల్చిపోతుంది. #FamilyDoctor pic.twitter.com/QD48pQF1IO— CMO Andhra Pradesh (@AndhraPradeshCM) April 6, 2023
Each mandal would consist of two PHCs, while each PHC would comprise two doctors — one of them taking care of outpatients and the other visiting YSR Health Clinics in assigned villages, schools, and anganwadi centres twice a month.
These doctors would identify people suffering from blood pressure issues, blood sugar issues, and anaemia and provide them treatment in the initial stages, thus preventing serious heart disease and conditions.
YSR Village Health Clinics, to be manned by Community Health Officers (CHOs), Auxiliary Nurse and Midwives (ANMs) and ASHA workers, would be equipped with 105 types of medicines, lab facilities to conduct 14 different diagnostic tests, and 936 mobile medical units (104 ambulance).
Jagan said that the government has been spending over ₹18,000 crore every year on the medical and health sector, against the meagre ₹8,000 crore spent during the TDP rule.
While the number of network hospitals under YSR Aarogyasri went up to 2,261 from 914 in the TDP rule, 3,57,1596 people were benefitted by the scheme in the last 45 months, he said.
He added that the government has so far spent ₹9,000 crore under Aarogyasri and ₹990 crore under Aarogya Aasara alone, making it an average of ₹3,300 crore annually.
In an unprecedented way, the government has so far distributed to the people ₹2,05,108 crore under various welfare schemes, bringing happiness at every doorstep across the state, he said.
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