The ministry has allocated Rs seven million to KMC to reinforce the services. KMC has published an advertisement seeking to recruit 24 health workers for the new clinics on Wednesday.[break]
"We are going to provide more than 20 additional essential drugs from our clinics, which the government does not provide from health posts," Chief of Health Department at KMC Dr Baburam Gautam said. KMC will also set up necessary equipment in those clinics.
KMC will also allocate similar budget to make the services effective. Dr Gautam said that health workers at urban health clinics will get adequate training. "We are planning to develop our health clinics as model health centers in the country," he added.
According to KMC, a large number of people are emigrating to the capital every month. The immunization rate of children in metropolis is lower than in villages. "Due to the lack of health education and expensive healthcare, people are not getting even minimum health services," Dr Gautam stated.
Big hospitals and nursing homes do not provide services like nutrition, health education, free immunization for children and other government programs. Dr Gautam said that people have to pay more than Rs 200 per dose of regular vaccine for children in private clinics.
"All people cannot afford private hospitals, so to provide them with adequate and satisfactory health services, we are advancing existing services," he said.
Dr Gautam said that about one-third of the total children living in metropolis are suffering from malnutrition. "We have found that none of the six children of a family were immunized," he added. Similarly, the survey conducted by KMC in the past has found the people infected with TB do not take medicine.
The survey revealed that such patients do not have knowledge about the free distribution of TB medicines. He also said that lot of pregnant women living in slums do not visit doctors.
A pregnant woman must consult a doctor at least four times during her pregnancy.
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