BENGALURU: Bus commuters in the city will now have access to two full-fledged clinics which will function at the Kempegowda Bus Station and the Yeshwantpur bus station.
These clinics will have one doctor, one nurse, one lab technician and one pharmacist. The ‘Indira Clinics’, as they are named, will offer free medical care to commuters and staff of the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC).
The clinics were inaugurated by Transport Minister H M Revanna on Saturday. They will be open from Monday to Saturday between 9 am and 4 pm. On Sunday, these clinics will function for half a day (10 am to 1 pm). Speaking about the facilities available, the minister said that the clinics would have single beds, a pharmacy, oxygen supply, wheel chair facilities, first aid as well as testing for blood pressure, blood sugar and thyroid. All of this would be provided free of cost.
“In the coming days, we will open more such clinics across the city,” he said and added that a super speciality hospital would come up in Yeshwantpur for employees of the state’s transport corporations.
“We are also planning to start a ‘less traffic day’ campaign on alternate Saturdays. We want more people to take BMTC buses,” he said.
Also on Saturday, 50 new buses were delivered to the BMTC by Tata Motors as part of a larger order of 1,385 buses which was placed this year.
Cleanliness drive
As part of a cleanliness drive, HAL employees and senior executives led by CMD T Suvarna Raju, undertook cleaning of market area and the street adjacent to the corporate office on Saturday.
Speaking on the occasion, Raju said, “All our complexes and offices are involved in spreading this important message of cleanliness and hygiene as we launch this 15-day campaign.”