Decentralisation and urban primary health services: a case study of Delhi’s Mohalla Clinics

摘要: The Indian political party Aam Aadmi, which assumed power in the city-state of Delhi 2015, introduced Mohalla Clinics (i.e. neighbourhood clinics) to provide free primary health services for all, as a response rising inaccessibility healthcare facilities urban poor. These clinics were be governed through Sabhas committees), are instruments participatory governance within neighbourhood. research compares promises and practice Clinics, especially focusing on politics surrounding it. authors find that their current form limited providing curative have shown success, although Clinic users do save time expenditure healthcare, led more comprehensive than past. However, top-down fashion by Government National Capital Territory-Delhi, not local bodies or envisaged committees. As result, they face problems may inhibit functioning long term.