nashik the nashik municipal corporation nmc will soon set up 106 subhealth centres in the city which will have outpatient departments opd and provide other services to the city residentsthese subcentres will be operational under the existing 30 urban primary health centres uphcs and provide health services for noncommunicable diseases like hypertension diabetes heart diseases etceach subhealth centre will have one mbbs doctor and four other staffers including a staff nurse multipurpose worker attendant and security guardthese subcentres are to be set up under the 15th finance commission and the centre has given its approval to set up 106 subhealth centres in the city the centre will spend on the salaries of the doctors and other health staff deployed at the subhealth centresnmc officials said there have been 30 uphcs in the city and each uphc provides health services to a population of 77000 hence several subhealth centres are being set up to provide health services to a maximum number of people and there will be three or four subhealth centres behind every uphcthe subhealth centres will also help in reducing the child mortality in the city run immunization family planning and other health services moreover these subhealth centres will also conduct surveys and collect the data about the people above the age of 30 years who are suffering from comorbid diseases like cancer diabetes cardiac and other such diseases said an nmc officialwe have already identified 88 properties of the civic body where these subhealth centres are to be opened we are still in the process of identifying the spaces for the remaining 18 subhealth centres said the official