WB Launches 110 Mobile Medical Units for Pregnant Women Care

By: WE staff | Wednesday, 12 November 2025

• The Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, launched 110 self-sufficient mobile medical units in Kolkata
• A total of 210 units have been built at a cost of ₹84 crore

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee launched 110 self-contained mobile medical units at Swasthya Bhawan in Kolkata on Monday.

She said that another 100 units would be rolled out soon to take the total to 210 units built at a cost of ₹84 crore.

Each unit with doctors, nurses and technicians will provide free diagnostic tests that include hemoglobin, pregnancy tests, ECG and blood sugar tests along with ultrasonography for the pregnant ones. The estimated cost of running these units per year was about ₹30 crore.

CM Mamata elaborated that under the Swasthya Sathi scheme, nearly 2.45 crore families or 8.72 crore people get healthcare benefits.

While government hospitals provide free treatment and generic medicines, in private hospitals around 90 lakh people are treated daily under the scheme, which covers up to ₹5 lakh per head.

Telemedicine services have reached almost 6.9 crore people, while institutional deliveries now account for 99.5 percent of births.

Other schemes are the Sishu Sathi programme, owing to which 64,000 children have received heart surgeries for free, and ₹70,000 crore investments in comprehensive public health infrastructure.

That also includes 14 new medical colleges, 42 super-specialty hospitals, 13,500 health centres and 12,000 in the pipeline, 76 CCUs, 3 HDUs, 17 mother and child hubs, 13 mother and waiting hubs, and an addition of 40,000 hospital beds.

CM also spoke about the state's less-than-ideal past regarding public health: institutional births were few, and there would not even be official birth records of people in those days.