chennai the greater chennai corporation will soon set up 200 urban health and wellness centres on the lines of aam aadmi mohalla clinics in delhi the clinics set up mostly in congested and slum areas are a linkage between local community health and higher healthcare facilities chief minister mk stalin visited delhi and was inspired by such clinics so we are incorporating it here through the uhwcs said health minister ma subramanian complementing the civic bodys 140 uphcs where nearly 35000 people go everyday these uhwcs will be set up where there is little healthcare access for peoplethe uhwcs are being set up at 88 crores through funds from national health mission and tenders are floated it offers treatment in paediatric maternal care general medicine health outreach programmes and will also help the civic body to maintain a health databasethe health minister held a meeting with all the 200 councillors to brief them about the importance of the uhwcs wherever there is a dense population such as markets bus terminus and habitation board tenements we are planning to set them up there he said the minister said 140 places have already been identified and the corporation would identify 60 more places soon we will give priority to terminated amma mini clinic doctors and nurses for the uhwcs he said he said the uhwcs will help treat fever and general medicine issues and it will function from 8 am to 12 noon and 4 pm to 8 pm corporation commissioner gagandeep singh bedi said that public will be consulted during the site selection process