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The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on the healthcare infrastructure of Delhi has revealed many shortcomings of the Mohalla Clinic commenced by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government. The report stated that the hyped project lacked basic facilities, a shortage of equipment, healthcare workers, and a lack of accountability. The report also suggested that the emergency funds for the health department were underutilised by the authorities.

The report, finding several mismanagements in the health sector during the AAP government, is expected to be tabled in the Delhi Assembly today. While the AAP presented the Mohalla clinic as one revolutionary step by stating that it will lower the burden from the big hospitals, the CAG report suggests that the residents of Delhi could not get even basic facilities in the hospital.

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The report stated that while 70 per cent of the patients were given consultations that lasted less than a minute, almost 18 per cent of the clinics were non-operational. The report added that 41 out of 218 clinics got closed during the audit because of the shortage of doctors and other issues. The report stated that many of these hospitals lacked basic facilities, adding that 74 clinics did not have stocks of critical drugs.

The report also stated that the AAP government could not achieve the target of 1,000 mohalla clinics by March 2017. The report informed that while the government could only establish 523 of these hospitals till March 2023, these hospitals too lacked the facilities essential for a hospital.

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While several of the clinics lacked basic facilities, including drinking water and clean toilets, many of these clinics lacked fire extinguishers and ramp facilities for differently-abled people. The CAG report also suggested that a few of these clinics did not even have enough space to store medicines, adding that many clinics had no pulse oximeters, glucometers, or thermometers.

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