kolkata the state health department has asked the department of urban development and municipal affairs to get sites ready to start polyclinic services from the urban primary health centres uphc according to health department sources these polyclinics will have specialist doctors in streams like medicine gynaecology paediatrics ophthalmology dermatology psychiatry etcaccording to the plan five existing uphcs will be grouped under one polyclinic each polyclinic will have diagnostic services with equipment like xray machines initially later haematology analysers and elisa will be brought in to enhance diagnostic facilitiestoi on january 12 had reported about the governments plan to introduce 17 such polyclinics in kolkata and 59 others across bengal now the health department has asked the urban development department to get the sites ready so that these clinics can start functioning at the earliest these clinics are meant to bring specialty services closer to the community and the project is under the 15th finance commission these services will benefit patients specially with poor economic background and who regularly attend the uphcs said a source at swasthya bhawansources say there will be one such clinic each in 16 boroughs under kmc and three under bidhannagar municipal corporationthe health department has specified that such clinics should have at least two rooms with adequate space for accommodating an examination table chair and table for specialist doctor and another chair for patient and threefold curtains among othersthe doctors will work as consultants there will be specialists in gynaecology paediatrics and medicine for three days a week and ophthalmology twice a week for at least three hours a day