Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has launched the family doctor concept in the Chilakaluripet Assembly constituency of Palnadu district today.
The State government has come up with the family physician concept to strengthen health services at the village level with an emphasis on preventive health.
Apart from treatment medicines will be given free by the Government the CM assured
As part of implementing the family physician concept, the government has set up two PHCs or one PHC and one CHC in each mandal.
All the PHCs are equipped with 2,873 doctors and 15,516 paramedical staff. One of the doctors in each PHC out of two takes care of OP at PHC and the other visits the mapped Village Health Clinic (VHC) in 104 mobile medical units (MMU) twice a month as per a pre-fixed schedule on a rotation basis.
Each doctor is mapped to a maximum of 6-7 villages and visits the same VHCs every month. It may be noted that the Basthi Davakhana concept in Delhi and also Telangana have been very successful.
Now Jagan has claimed the concept as unique and first of its kind in the country. Jagan says this is family doctor concept.
