TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION TO THE FUNCTIONING OF DEPARTMENT

2. PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
3. HOSPITALS : INCREASE IN BED CAPACITY
4. MOBILE HEALTH SCHEME
5. CHACHA NEHRU SEHAT YOJNA
6. DIABETES AND HYPERTENSION SCREENING OF URBAN SLUMS OF DELHI
7. REVISED NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL PROGRAM
8. TOBACCO CONTROL PROGRAMME
9. LEPROSY CONTROL PROGRAMME
10. ENSURING AVAILABILITY OF QUALITY MEDICINES IN HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES
11. USE OF COMPUTERS FOR IMPROVING SERVICES :HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM
12. DELHI AROGYA KOSH
13. BIO-MEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT

1. INTRODUCTION TO THE FUNCTIONING OF DEPARTMENT
The department caters to health needs of nearly 160 lakh population of the ever-growing metropolis
and also has to share the burden of migratory as well as floating population from neighbouring states
which constitute nearly 33% of total intake at major hospitals in Delhi.
The department is committed to provide health care facilities to the people of Delhi. The Department
of Health & Family Welfare of Government of NCT of Delhi is headed by the Principal Secretary. He is the
controlling authority for Department of Health & Family Welfare; with subordinate Directorate of Health
Services, Directorate of Family Welfare, various hospitals ; Autonomous Bodies under Government of
NCT of Delhi like IHBAS, Delhi AIDS Society, CATS; Department of Food Safety; Drug Controller and other
National Programmes.
This department liaisons with all other local bodies viz MCD, NDMC, Cantonment Board and other
Government and Non Government Health Care Organizations functioning in the State of Delhi. The
Principal Secretary coordinates for the Government of NCT of Delhi with the Ministry of Health & Family
Welfare, Government of India.
2. PRIMARY HEALTH CARE : EXPANSION OF PRIMARY HEALTH CENTRES NETWORK
o 122 new Delhi Government Dispensaries (allopathic) and Primary Urban Health Centres have
been opened during last 15 years taking the total number to 256 from 134 in 1998. Of these
134 units are now located in Government buildings as compared to only 81 in 1998.
o Over One Crore twenty lakh patients are treated in our dispensaries only every year.
o Mother Labs with advanced laboratory investigation facilities are available in 38 Delhi Govt
dispensaries.
o Urban Public Health Standards have been adopted for providing quality services in our
dispensaries.
o 18 Allopathic dispensaries are at various stages of planning or construction
3. HOSPITALS : INCREASE IN BED CAPACITY
o Hospital bed availability in Delhi has increased from 24025 beds in 1997 to 44373 beds in 2013.
Almost 20 thousand beds have been added during the last 15 years in Government and private
sector together.
o Total number of beds in Delhi Government Hospitals has almost been two and half times, with
present sanctioned bed strength of 10643 as compared to 4301 in 1999.
o 39 Hospitals are now functioning under Government of Delhi of which 13 have been opened
during last ten years.
o Five Delhi Government hospitals viz. IHBAS, DSCI, MAIDS, ILBS and CNBC have been accredited
by NABH and are delivering world class quality medical services.
o Fourteen new hospitals are at various stages of planning or construction.
(Madipur(200), Jwalapuri(50), Siraspur(200), Dwarka (700), Ambedkar Ngr(200), Sarita
Vihar(225), Baprola (50), Keshavpuram (200), Burari (200), Jhatikara (100 ), Bamdoli ( 200),
Chhatarpur (225), Molarband(50), Vikaspuri (200))
4. MOBILE HEALTH SCHEME
o Thirty new mobile dispensaries are added in last 15 years taking the total number of mobile
dispensaries upto 90 from 60 in 1998
o These mobiles dispensaries covering around 520 JJ Clusters
o The mobile dispensaries now attend around 24 lakh patients every year as compared to only
around 9 lakhs in 1998.
o These dispensaries also provide medical coverage on various occasions/events/places, and
include Haz Manjil pilgrims, Urs Mela, Kanwar Camps, NCC Camps/Sports Events, Sant
Nirankari Sammelan, Chhat Puja, special services for control of Cholera/ Gastroenteritis/
Jaundice outbreak/Any other epidemic , medical acre for illegal migrants (Bangladeshi
Prisoners), Arya Orphanage Pataudi House, Tahir Pur Leprosy Complex, , Lampur Beggar Home/
Resettled JJ clusters, Night Shelters etc.
5. CHACHA NEHRU SEHAT YOJNA
o Launched in 2011 to provide comprehensive health care to cover Primary, Secondary and Sr.
Secondary School students in Delhi.
o This is one of the major Public Health intervention and is still at early stage of major
breakthrough. About 4 lakh students have been screened till date.
o Deworming campaign successfully undertaken last year, all school children were administered
the medicine in all schools of Delhi
6. DIABETES AND HYPERTENSION SCREENING OF URBAN SLUMS OF DELHI
o Delhi is the first state to start and successfully complete the Diabetes and Hypertension
Campaign in Urban Slum population.
o About 4.5 lakh population of slum were screened for Diabetes and Hypertension between
November 2011 to June 2012.
7. REVISED NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL PROGRAM
o Delhi is having 100% coverage for tuberculosis DOTS treatment with 702 DOTS centers and 199
Microscopy centre up from 51 each ten years back.
o A total of 488948 patients have been put on treatment during last 10 years. 97984 lives have
been saved form death due to the interventions under the programme.
o Due to sustained efforts, it has been possible to decrease the defaulter rate from 9% in 2002 to
4.5% now.
o Due to interventions under the programme 5120348 number of new tuberculosis infections
have been prevented.
8. TOBACCO CONTROL PROGRAMME
o 391708 raids have been carried out under the antitobacco programme and 61929 persons and
6514 vendors have been penalized with a total fine collection of Rs. 542966 since 2007.
o Eight raiding squads have been constituted in various districts of Delhi.
o Gutkha and other Pan masalas having tobacco/nicotine as ingredients have been banned in
2012.
9. LEPROSY CONTROL PROGRAMME
o The prevalence rate of Leprosy has declined from 4.27 per 10000 population in 2003 to 0.78 per
thousand in 2011.
o The leprosy elimination rate of below 1 /10000 population was achieved way back in 2007.
o During last 10 years, 25938 new cases of leprosy have been diagnosed and treated under the
programme. Under the programme special foot wear (Microcellular Rubber (MCR) footwear) is
being provided to leprosy patients with disabilities needing the footwear and around 4000 such
footwear have been provided to deserving patients .
10. ENSURING AVAILABILITY OF QUALITY MEDICINES IN HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES
o Centralised system of procurement of quality medicines and surgical consumables to hospitals
and dispensaries with computerized system of indenting, e-tendering, ordering and monitoring
has been established. Supply Chain Management with special vehicle software called Nirantar.
o Daily status of availability of Medicine is available on the website.
11. USE OF COMPUTERS FOR IMPROVING SERVICES : HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT INFORMATION
SYSTEM
o Common standards for computerized Hospital Management Information System for Delhi
Government hospitals have been developed.
o This HMIS developed in association with C-DAC is now successfully implemented in Guru Gobind
Singh Govt. Hospital as pilot project and shall be implemented in other hospitals in shortly.
o Daily status of availability of Medicine is available on the website.
o Realtime availability of beds in private hospitals providing free treatment to poor is available on
the health department website.
12. DELHI AROGYA KOSH
o Delhi Arogya Kosh has been established in 2011 to provide financial aid to needy poor patients
in Government hospitals. With this scheme, poor patients up to the annual family income of Rs.
2 lakhs will be benefitted for getting treatment of various illness.
o Under Delhi Arogya Kosh 157 patients have got financial assistance amounting to Rs
19617884/- for payment of their treatment in various hospitals since 2011.
o Under Delhi Arogya Nidhi 1781 patients have received treatment and Rs. 12.5 crores have been
disbursed to various hospitals in between 2002 and 2013 .
13. BIO-MEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT
o Two Centralised Treatment Facilities have been established under PPP mode for treatment Bio-
Medical Waste generated by Government as well as Private Health Care Centres, one with 9
tonnes capacity at Okhla started in 2006 and another with a capacity of 19 tonnes at Nilothi
started in 2011.