Mumbai: Before fulfilling his budget promise to prepare 100 free diagnostic clinics throughout the city in the next financial year, BMC plans to conduct a trial with five clinics starting in March.
These clinics, planned in the BMC that have pharmacies or health centers, will offer a variety of radiological tests including ultrasound scanning, echo 2-D, mammography and even CT scans.
“We want to arrange five centers like it immediately to check how they blend it with our health system.
If there is a startup problem, we can eradicate them,” said a BMC official.
Confirming the news, the additional Commissioner BMC Suresh Kakani said the process of selecting spots was ongoing.
“We want to start five to 10 the earliest clinic,” he said.
In the budget announced on February 4, BMC has allocated Rs 400 Crore for 100 Pollinika and Diagnostic centers to be labeled as the Health Center Thackeray Hinduhridasamrat Balasaheb.
The plan, Kakani said, is having a consultation room and a diagnostic center that offers free radiological scanning.
“We also want to offer telemedicine facilities here so that doctors from Superspecialty Hospital Kem, Nair and Zion will be available for patients remotely,” he said.
While BMC has space in many of its pharmacies to organize such diagnostic facilities, there are several jammed wards where this might be impossible.
“We explore various models here.
In places where we have space and labor, we will run the centers of ourselves.
In some other places, we will offer our space to the private parties to operate machines and Offer services, “Kakani said.
BMC is also open to tied with private laboratories if you cannot find space and labor.
BMC health pyramids have tertiary care – in the form of superspecialty hospitals such as KEM, Zion, Nair and Cooper – and secondary networks consisting of smaller hospitals in the suburbs.
The main health has 187 medical dispensations and 27 pregnant centers, but people prefer to go to tertiary hospitals even for simple health problems.
“We want to stop people from the unnecessary crowding superspecialty hospitals.
The availability of a doctor or telemedicine consultant and SCA-NS closer to their homes can stop people from traveling far to Kem or Zion Hospital for consultants,” Kakani said.