new delhi delhi government will provide covid19 vaccine free to everybody at its hospitals finance minister manish sisodia said on tuesday while private hospitals are charging rs 250 for the procedure the same is already available for free at government facilities to senior citizens and those above 45 years but with certain comorbidities for healthcare and frontline workers its free everywhere while presenting the 202122 budget sisodia said rs 50 crore was being allotted to ensure that the rest of the population could also get the vaccine free at government facilities currently the government has the capacity to apply vaccines to 45000 people daily which will be increased to 60000 in the next few days he saidthe budget also proposed starting mahila mohalla clinics from next year it is a fact of our society that women tend to neglect their own illnesses the result of this is that many women live with ailment assuming it as destiny delhi government will now undertake the responsibility of having a mahila mohalla clinic around every woman in delhi and services of gynaecologist and related diagnostic tests etc will be free sisodia said in the first phase 100 clinics are to be set up in different parts of delhi which will be progressively increased to at least one in each wardout of the total outlay of rs 69000 crore rs 9934 crore 14 has been kept for the health sector as against rs 7485 crore in 202021 of this rs 5192 crore is meant for various schemes and projectsthe deputy chief minister added that delhi government had allocated rs 1293 crore for expansion of healthrelated infrastructure in view of the covid experiences these projects include construction of hospitals in jwalapuri sirspur madipur and vikaspuri and redesign of 19 existing hospitals the number of beds will increase by more than 14000 once these projects are complete he saidthe share of the health sector in the budget has increased significantly over the past few years in 201213 and 201314 the allocation to the sector under the plan outlay was rs 2124 crore and 2490 crore respectively dr arun gupta president of delhi medical council said the increased expenditure on health was a step in the right directiondelhi government also reiterated its plan to issue health cards to all citizens next year