Know about the opening of 500 Urban Health and Wellness Centers in TN in just a month!!
Posted on: 08/Feb/2023 9:37:39 AM
In Tamil Nadu now, work has been progressing at rapid speeds regarding 708 urban health and wellness centres. In a month, about 500 urban health and wellness centers would be opened for the public in phase one.
For 2021-22, a total of 593 urban health and wellness centers were sanctioned and for 2022-23 a total of 115 were sanctioned in the state of TN. With a total of 200 urban health and wellness centres coming up, Chennai has the highest number of these centres. In Coimbatore corporation, as many as 64 centres are being set up and in Madurai Corporation as manya s 62 centres are being set up.
Trichy Corporation would have 36 centers followed by 34 in Tiruppur Corporation, 32 centres in Salem Corporation and 21 centres in Erode Corporation. Almost all the centres would have new buildings and work has been going on for 593 centres.
The Director of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Dr. TR. Selvavinayagam expressed his views. He spoke about how due to increasing population the urban health and wellness centres would be needed badly. He added that the people living in the urban slums etc would get the much needed treatment immediately with less expenditure from their pockets. In a month in phase 1around 500 such centers would be opened for the public.
A doctor, a staff nurse,health inspector and a support staff member would be present in each centre. The District Health Societies would be recruiting for the posts. Once opened, the public would be able to use these wellness centres from 8am in the morning till noon and from 4pm in the evening till 8pm. These centres would function as clinics in the mornings and in the evenings and would provide 12 services like antenatal care, infant immunisation etc. Health education components would also be there in these urban health and wellness centres.
