Monday, 24 July 2017

12 things to know about Mohalla Clinics and the way these are strengthening Delhi healthcare system

I have been closely following AAP governance in Delhi and their healthcare evolution. The Delhi government is moving towards better and affordable healthcare system. The Delhi healthcare system is world-wide discussed and praised by many other countries. After its implementation in Delhi, many other states in India have also proposed to implement a similar healthcare system. I found a very well written article from Amar Kumar on Quora.com. The article explains the Delhi mohalla clinic system very well and their efficiency level. The article is not a media reporting and can be discarded as fake article. Since I have following mohalla clinic news since beginning, I found all the details in article remains true and are existing on internet either by media reports or ground reports/updates from ministers on their twitter/Facebook accounts. Read the Quora article here. 
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Kejriwal’s team has cheated the standards set by National Health Mission.
Yeah this might appear scandalous but that is how the Health Minister Satyendra Jain rolls. Jain’s biggest achievement is to think like an ethical hacker, he breaks many of the existing assumptions and conventions. You might have read 100 articles/posts/tweets about benefits of Mohalla Clinics by domestic media, international media, scientific journals and organizations, but this answer will unveil the actual root causes of these benefitswhich no other article has pointed out. What is so special about it? Why was not this thought of before? Is it all a mirage created by few supporters? Why is head of WHO finding this solution innovative? At the end of the day it is a single doctor sitting in a small room, isn’t it?
<Prologue>
Jain narrates this hilarious incident from his visit to a dispensary. It had a staff of nineteen people, but only one was doctor. So this was the conversation-
Jain- What is the biggest issue at this dispensary?
Employee- Shortage of . . . . . . . . . staff
J- What do you do?
E- I make entries in this register.
J- How many done today?
E- 36
J- What does that guy do?
E- He also makes the entries but in a different register.
Jain - *facepalm*
So the root issue is, as Jain explains, government has never used manpower efficiently. The underlying paradigm is flawed - Trying to solve a problem by throwing money at it and increasing staff. Another example - A 30 bed maternity hospital with 20 doctors and a lot of staff, do you know what was the output? 17 deliveries! Not per day or per week. Mind boggling 17 deliveries per month at a cost to government of Rs 2 Lakh per delivery!Jain closed the hospital. A politician closing a hospital would be termed as suicide by pundits!! But he converted it into polyclinic and today 1500 patients benefit from that polyclinic.
<prologue ends>
So coming back to the original question? What is so special about Mohalla Clinics (MCs)? There are about 12 reasons among two broad categories- Approach taken and Impact created
PART ONE - APPROACH TAKEN
First, Jain ignored the Primary Healthcare Center definition as stipulated by National Health Mission. When the idea was floated then government officers said that if we want to call it PHC then we need to provide all these 8–9 services. Jain said “Fine, lets only cover 6–7 of these and not call them PHCs”. Government officers: “Then it’s OK”. Jain simply ignored the existing standards and created a new standard.[1]Another radical approach was to create 100 “dummy clinics” which are identical to proposed clinics in terms of service but rather in a rented room. All of these will be dismantled later, they only serve the purpose of preparing the backend supply chain for the full scale expansion.[2]
Second, Enormous scale - a model of going from 0 to 1000 clinics in a city, this is one of a kind model across the nation and perhaps even world! Initial target was 500 in first phase and 500 in next. After the feedback, Kejriwal decided to go thousand in one phase.[3]So how come they can envision such a scale? When no other government could think of doing such thing, read the next three points.
Third, Nature of construction - prefabricated “Porta cabin”, a temporary structure.
This implies - faster construction time as they don’t need to dig a foundation or erect any brick walls. This one at Tilak Nagar was constructed in 15 days![4]
Fourth, Bureaucracy circumvented - By the virtue of being temporary structures, they don’t require any of the construction permits. Another factor which enables enormous scale is ability to award bulk tenders. Can a government give out tender of constructing 250 dispensary buildings to one contractor? AAP govt can do so in case of MCs: 4 contractors for 1000 clinics![5]
Fifth, Very low cost i.e. 4% of the earlier budget! - Rs 20 Lakh instead of the usual 5 crore for a full fledged dispensary building.[6]Of course a dispensary will have more space and lifespan, but MCs are almost equal in terms of range of services. In fact MCs are fully air-conditioned and hence more comfortable for visitors.
Sixth, In-house testing capabilities - Of the 200 free tests many can be conducted few meters away from the doctor’s table which is unique on this scale. For other tests patients just needs to visit one more time.[7]
Seventh, Zero employees in 1000 clinics: Whole staff is “empaneled” and none are hired as state government employee. Advantage is that government can quickly recruit as many as they want, the process of hiring permanent employees can take decades. Doctor is paid less per patient than a cobbler makes per customer!, still many of them ends up making more than 1 Lakh per month for 4 hours of duty![8] As a result of such incentive structure doctors behave nicely with every patient so that they keep visiting. Some instances of fake patient billing have been noticed, but such issues won’t remain for long as analytic algorithms can be used to detect abnormal patterns and blacklist such criminals.
Eighth, Cutting edge digital technologies - Doctor enters all the details via a tablet. Now patient will not have to carry their medical records, even if they visit another clinic. In the pic below you can see another innovation- Medicine vending machine, patient shows the prescription and machine dispenses the required medicine.[9] 
PART TWO - IMPACT GENERATED due to the above mentioned 8 approaches
Ninth, Proximity. As it is a small structure with minimal construction time, it can be erected bang in the middle of most populous areas. It doesn’t matter if it is a slum or unauthorized colony. In fact the very first one was constructed in a illegal colony with barely any streets, forget about roads.[10]This factor of proximity creates many more additional impacts like the next few reasons.
Tenth, Doctor visit is no longer a four day mission for poor. In earlier scenario
  • Elders and ladies needed an accomplice to travel.
  • If the bread winner had to accompany then he would miss his daily wage
  • If there is a need for tests he would miss wages 2 more times -for tests, for collecting test results and then second doc visit.
  • Additional expense for travel - Auto/Bus
  • Additional expense for tests
  • Additional expenses for medicines
Due to all these issues even a labourer would directly go to nearby private doc or resort tounqualified quacks (colloquially known as Bangali Babas) who usually prescribes steroids to suppress the symptoms rather than curing the issue.[11] Now this 4 day saga has drastically reduced to mere 15 minutes-
Rupandeep Kaur, 20 weeks pregnant, arrived at a clinic looking fatigued and ready to collapse. She was taken to see a physician who reviewed her medical history, asked several questions, and ordered a series of tests. These tests revealed that her fetus was healthy but Kaur had dangerously low hemoglobin and blood pressure levels. The physician ordered an ambulance to take her to a nearby hospital.
All of this, including the tests, happened in 15 minutes. The entire process was automated — from check-in, to retrieval of medical records, to testing and analysis and ambulance dispatch. The hospital also received Kaur’s medical records electronically. There was no paperwork filled out, no bills sent to the patient or insurance company, no delay of any kind. Yes, it was all free. Had she not received timely treatment, she may have had a miscarriage or lost her life. [12]
Eleventh, Hidden patients are being discovered: Earlier scenario for poor people:
  • Wait for the problem to appear
  • Wait until it’s unavoidable
  • Wait more
  • Finally visit the doc as mentioned in the point above and after 2–3 days of running around get the final prescription
  • Take it or leave it (in case prescribed med is costly)
  • Keep on going till the body fails again [13]
Today, even if they don’t have any serious problem, they are visiting for minor symptoms e.g. elders visiting for back pain are getting the BP/sugar checked along with the consultation. Many are detecting shocking level of type 2 diabetes/ hypertension for the first time. If these “non-urgent” patients are treated earlier, then will save govt a lot of efforts at a later stage, like this doc caught few cases of typhoid and early stage canceramong MCs visitors.
Twelfth, Incredible cure rate - Clinics were predicted to have cure rate of 85% but surprisingly the actual cure rate turned out to be 97%!![14] This will reduce the crowds in hospitals. Right now, it is becoming difficult to differentiate between crowded railway platforms and hospitals.
All these 12 factors are one of a kind, hence many countries/states are intrigued by the concept of MCs. If you are interested in knowing more details then watch this documentary. MCs is a minor achievement of Delhi health dept there is much more, read this answer to get an idea on how Jain is on his way to create a Scandinavian system in a third world country.
How freaky is this. 10 days after I mentioned Scandinavia in my original answer. This lady from Norway said “The health reforms in Delhi strike me as an excellent strategy to build an inclusive health system in India” [15]
Why is garnering such feedback from this lady extraordinary?
  • Norway is Ranked one i.e. best nation on the planet as per Human Development Index
  • She has been three time Prime Minister of Norway,
  • It gets bigger - She was Director General of WHO, this post is like Health minister of planet earth
Finally, why doesn’t media focus on positive aspects like these? Why no prime time discussions over Health agenda? Is all of media biased and paid? NO! The actual cause of this state of media is you, the viewer. Positive news like these are boring, they don’t bring much TRP and as a result low revenue. We humans are wired like this, we might hope for positive news but we give our attention to negative/sensational news only. 
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Watch Mohalla Clinic video here explaining its facilities, test and efficiency. 

Watch documentary (Mohalla Clinic: Health within reach) by NDTV 






Wednesday, 19 July 2017

10 ways to identify fake images on social media


Creating a fake or morphed content is easy and anyone with even a little knowledge of Microsoft Word (not necessary to know about Photoshop) can create a content of their choice. As a user, when you see such content on internet and you are aware about original story, most likely you will get influenced by it and may end up believing it. On the part of the reader, making anything viral on social media takes an illogical thinking and takes some micro seconds to click like/share. The content created has done its job as an influencer and you have done yours by getting influenced from it. 

With easily accessible internet, domain names, and website building tools; these fake or morphed photos are not limited to social media or widely used messaging app WhatsApp. Fake content is uploaded on websites too and at some point of time you might have seen such links (carrying this info) on your social media wall. I published my first article in Feb 2016 on fake news and ever since I have been educating people about fake news/photos. Over time, I have encountered many such articles and photos delivering false information. This blog is focused on Fake Graphic (Photo) content. Most commonly available graphics (containing fake/morphed information) on social media can be divided into three categories. 

  1. Photo of News Article 
  2. Photo of Status Update of a Person 
  3. Photo with Text 

Photo of News Article 

Very often on social media, you see an image of news article/paper which may look real but can be fake or digitally edited too. There can be several types of photos of news articles. 

(1) Photo of news paper taken from camera/mobile: 

Usually, such photos are taken with a prospective viewpoint and are highly distorted, contains other news on the same page, background. Cell phone cameras are used to take such photos.
Front page photo from camera

An article photo from camera 
 How to identify if the photo is real:
  • Read the headline and context together. Don't just believe on headline, if there is picture in the article, find a correlation with the article
  • Read the reporter's name, date of the article and place of reporting (some of the article do have these) 
  • Look at the overall color or shade of the picture. It should have uniform color shades across image and image noise should be uniform
  • Headline and rest of the text should have similar orientation/projection and font style 
  • There are apps which generate an image look-a-like news article, check for date of publication and search online about the article using google or the website of the news article
An article photo from camera (original) 
Morphed photo by editing graphical image on article  
Morphed photo by editing title of the article 
If you find something suspicious which is potentially edited, report it to the concerned authority. You can also Report (or Report Abuse) on the same media platform. 

(2) Photo of newspaper article scanned from a scanner: 

This is usually done by professionals as normal user may not have access to a scanner. Image quality is very high and you can read minute details in these images. Scanned images are well projected and evenly distributed from corner to corner of the image. 
Scanned image of a news article 
Scanned image of a news article 
How to identify if the photo is real:
  • Professionals include newspaper name and date with the scanned article or they write it down manually 
  • Paper copy texture can be seen across the scanned image 
  • Text distribution is even everywhere and fonts are uniform 
  • Read title and entire article and make sure both complement each other 
  • If something is fishy and the story doesn't make sense; stop sharing it. Sometimes news editors/reporters do mistakes in printing/reporting news 
  • App generated articles look very professional and texture pattern can be easily identified (it looks artificial, which would be difficult to produce) 
  • Changing title of existing news article is one of most common practice because while going through the social media wall, we just read title of the news article on the image 
  • Follow examples from (1) to identify edited title, text and image represented in the article 
If you find something suspicious which is potentially edited, report it to the concerned authority. You can also Report (or Report Abuse) on the same media platform. 

(3) Photo from an e-Paper: 

Screenshot or saved image form an e-paper is the most clear article image one can get. The images are non-distorted,  text has better resolution and image is clear/noiseless. E-paper articles are usually similar to the ones which are printed on physical paper but they adjust according to the screen resolution and window size of the browser. 

How to identify if the photo is real:
  • E-paper articles can be easily found using google search. Same image may not be found but other relevant article can be found on different websites 
  • Go to the website of the e-paper article and search for the same article based on city and date 
  • E-paper articles may contain reporter's name, place and date 
  • If article's original link is provided, verify the link
  • E-paper look-a-like articles are easy to create using any word processing software. Be careful if you come across such an article and trust only the verified information 
  • It is hard to differentiate if the title is added on top of original unless font is very different from the rest of the text. Non-expert photo editors usually commit such mistakes and use most common/default text fonts while editing titles 
  • Read the entire article with title before you react to it and share
An e-paper image from epaper.jagran.com. Look at the image quality, text, and pic; everything is perfect 

Photo of Status Update of a Person 

This is another common image you can find on social media and in your WhatsApp messages. Most social media users update their status (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram etc) but updates from celebrities are more interesting to normal users. Their updates are influential and inspirational to their fans so the screen shots of status updates are widely shared by the masses. As a social media influencer, if you want to sell your idea, simply mix your idea as a celebrity idea and sell it in the social media market. There are real fans out there who are ready to believe in everything their idols post. There are two ways to spread false information.

(4) Fake Account 

Creating a fake account on the name of someone else is easy. But identifying if the account is real or fake is not impossible. Look at following original and fake profiles of Anupam Kher and Bobby Deol.
Original and Fake twitter profiles of Anupam Kher and Bobby Deol 
How to identify if the profile is real:
  • There is no other way than to go to the person/celebrity profile on a social media site 
  • Look for the verified tick mark (Blue circle with white tick mark) next to the profile name 
  • Look for the number of followers (celebrity profile have large number of followers) 
  • Look at other tweets/updates from the person (does the tweet/updates looks uniform) 
  • Look how the profile name is spelled, does it read correctly? 
  • Look for abusive or objectionable tweet/updates form the account 
If you find that account is fake, you can report it right on the website. These days social media sites are serious about fake accounts. Many fake accounts have been suspended in past. 

(5) Modified Status Update 

Some photos of another person's status update you see on social media sites are morphed or fake. This is usually done by adding modified status on top of original status image. Later this is shared as original status update from a specific person. Most of the status update screen shots contain date and time. 

How to identify if the status update is real:
  • Go to the profile and look for status updates 
  • Finding a status update is not very hard, as there might be few status updates in a day 
  • Use guideline given in (4) to check if the account is real or fake 
  • Use keywords and search status while you are on the person's profile 
  • Even though it is not easy to identify morphed status update, but look for its font style. If the name and status text style mis-matches, dig more into it and search closely 
Original status update (tweet) from original account of Ravish Kumar 
Changed status update (tweet) from original account of Ravish Kumar 

Photo with Text 

Photos are best tool to gain attention of social media users. It is less likely that users read a story posted as a text. If something is shared as an image, it grabs users attention and their reaction is vital. Sharing a photo is convenient than sharing the text story, because when a text story is shared, only a few starting lines are visible and users have to click continue reading to read the full story.  On the other hand, shared photos do not hide any information. There are three major types of photos which may play with users emotions. 

(6) Quotes

Quotes are very popular on social media. Usually quotes are taken from different article/books from an author and shared with their picture on social media. Not all the quotes need to be true. Some quotes are useful and some are harmful with incomplete information. Look at the following picture of Abraham Lincoln quoting about internet when internet didn't exist during his time. A little bit of common sense can save many opinions.
A quote about Internet from Abrahim Lincoln during the time when people didn't know about internet. Can it be true? 
Following quotation from Julian Assange from WikiLeaks was very popular in India during 2014. I have no idea who started it but it went viral on internet such that WikiLeaks had to issue an official statement regarding this.

A fake leak claimed to be from Julian Assange, later WikiLeaks clarified that it is fake in their official statement  

(7) News / representative photo

Some of the photos you see on social media are meant to spread news. In some cases the news is true and some it is false. Because it is our nature of being lazy to go over the entire article, we believe in what we get easily. But remember, there is no shortcut. No regular news agency create such content (graphic of news title with an image and small description). Such content is usually created by fans and other unofficial community pages such that it can be made viral. Be careful about authenticity of such photos. Always check the relevant news from google or other search engines. Also such photos have limited space, so they don't include all story usually filled with only one opinion.

NanoChip in Rs 2000 notes was viral during Demonitization in India. Many (including news channels) believed  
This false survey claimed to be conducted by BBC was viral once 
How to identify if the content is real: 
  • Always trust on information shared by reliable sources; your friends may not have reliable source 
  • Always check the original person who posted the info, use help in (4) if it is shared by a genuine account 
  • Check the website of news source 
  • Use Google search using key word or search entire title given in photo 
  • If it says, "No Media will show this", try to ignore such message, most likely it is false 
  • If someone forwarded or shared such article which seems to be false, ask about the source from them, if they are unable to answer ask them to share the source 
  • Ignore any news image/article which seems false, you can report such images if it is on social media site such as Facebook and Twitter 

(8) Morphed photo

Morphing a photo is another common practice found on internet. Some people edit an photo for education, others for fun, jokes, personality building or even personality destruction. In any case, morphed photo is always morphed and can be interpreted differently by different people. Education, fun and jokes might be acceptable as sarcasm but sometimes it comes to spreading hatred among community people. It will never go straight as different users keep adding content according to their choice.

Many of us might have seen Mahatma Gandhi in a fake image with a girl (very close to kissing each other) and Kanhaiya Kumar from JNU for his fake photo in front of India map with Pakistan.

Left: Morphed Photo, Right: Original Photo 
Left: Original Image, Right: Morphed Image 
How to identify if the image is real: 
  • For a normal user it is hard to identify the original image unless photoshopped image have some glitch 
  • Best shot here is Google Image Search and explore searched results beyond one page of search results and most likely you will find your answer 
  • Look for light conditions in different parts of the image; do you see any difference? 
  • Look at boundaries of subject in a photoshopped image; are the boundary pixels different from background? 
  • Is image resolution uniform across the image 
  • Examine boundaries of object closely, you may find it is photoshopped or original (in case Google Image Search does not help) 

(9) Mis-Representated Photo 

This is another common practice among social media users. Subject matter in the image does not remain same, it might be mis-represented. Meaning: Content from another place can be told as from some other place and in a different form/story. Image representation changes its form depending on the story it is used to tell.

Following is just one example from social media. Social media is full of such content which is taken from another place and captioned differently.
A different photo represented with different caption from Laughing Colors on Facebook 
How to identify if the image is real: 
  • Photo is real in most cases but it is represented wrongly 
  • Google Image Search is best option here, you can easily find such images on Google 
  • If a matching image is found on Google, check when it was posted? Does the story on Google image matches the shared story? 
  • Check who is sharing it? Does the account has shared such image in the past? 
  • Always ask for authenticity of the source image 

(10) Old Photo

This is very close to (9).  Here (in most cases) image remains original and caption supports the picture. But the place of picture taken and date is changed. This is mostly used in spreading false propaganda against some person or creating tension in the community. The opportunist claims the disturbing content in a image as to be from a different place and date. Sharing a factual information (correct date and place) is fine, but a modified content with different place and date may be harmful.

A screen shot from a Bhojpuri Movie was claimed to be a scene of recent riots in West Bengal, India 
How to identify if the image and content is matching: 
  • Download the image on your system and use Google Image Search to find the original person/website of the concerned image 
  • Go to the website of the image from the search result 
  • Read through the article and see the date of publication of the article 
  • Does the image shared talks the same thing discussed in the searched article? Both might be wrong, but it is more likely that the first article is correct (if first is not correct, second can't be) 
  • Look at the profile of person who shared the image and scroll through the profile 
  • If you find similar post from the timeline of the person, please ignore and report the shared image 
This is all about finding if the image (or content in an image) is real or fake. I hope you like this article, please share it with your friends such that they know these basic techniques and use these to identify fake images. Special thanks to www.smhoaxslayer.com for doing great job in finding origins of a news article for you. It is time we should learn these basic skills to identify if the content on social media is right or wrong. 

Sunday, 9 July 2017

A list of private hospitals operates 52 types of surgeries for free to Delhi residents


Saturday, July 8th: Delhi Government cabinet took a historical decision and made a milestone announcement for its worldwide discussed healthcare system. There are 52 kinds of major surgeries which can be performed for free (for Delhi residents) in various private hospitals across Delhi and NCR. These surgeries can be operated in any of 48 private hospitals if there is more than 30 days of waiting in government hospitals. 

In addition to these surgeries, government of Delhi also offers free medicines, medical tests including CT and MRI scans. Government hospitals in the capital, over 100 mohalla clinics and polyclinics are treating patients for free. Some of the tests are free for patients of low income families. A list of 52 surgeries provided for free by Delhi government and list of 48 private hospitals where these can be operated are given below. 

List of 52 surgeries: 

##  Surgery Name  Note 
1
CABG (Heart-By-Pass Surgery)

2
Laparoscopic Gall Bladder Surgery

3-19
Kidney Stone Surgery (PCNL)
17 Types of Surgeries 
20-21 
Prostate Surgery (TURP)
2 Types of Surgeries 
22-29
Thyroid Surgery
8 Types of Surgeries 
30-38
Haemorrhoidectomy (Piles) Surgery
9 Types of Surgeries 
39
Laparoscopic Appendix Surgery

40
Cataract Surgery

41-43
Nasal Surgery
3 Types of Surgeries 
44-49
Ear Surgery
6 Types of Surgeries 
50-51
Throat (Tonsillectomy) Surgery
2 Types of Surgeries 
52
Other specified general surgery 


List of 48 private hospitals: 

##
Hospital Name 
Address 
Surgeries 
1 Batra Hospital & Medical Research Centre  MB Road, Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi-44 
All Surgeries 
2 Bhagwati Hospital Sector-13, Rohini, Delhi-85 
3 Maharaja Agarsen Hospital Rohtak Road, Punjabi Bath, New Delhi-26 
4 Mata Chanan Devi Hospital Block C-1, Janak Puri, New Delhi-58 
5 Max Super Speciality Hospital FC-50, C&D Block, Shalimar Bag, New Delhi-08 
6 Park Hospital 12, Chowkhandi, New Delhi-08 
7 R.L.K.C. Hospital Metro Heart Institute Naraina Road, Pandav Nagar, New Delhi-08 
8 Rockland Hospital Qutub Institution Area, New Delhi-17
9 Saroj Hospital and heart Institute  Madhuban Chowk, Rohini, Delhi-85 
10 Sri Balaji Action Medical Institute FC-34, A-4, Paschim Vihar, Delhi-63 
11 Tirath Ram Shah Charitable Hospital  Rajpur Road, Delhi-54 
12 Delhi Heart and Lung Institute Panchkuian Road, New Delhi-55  All Surgeries except Eye and ENT 
13 Metro Hospital & Cancer Institute 21, Community Centre, Press Vihar, Delhi-92 
14 Metro Hospital & Heart Institute 14, Ring Road, Lajpat Nagar-IV, New Delhi-24 
15 Moolchand Khairati Ram Hospital Lajpat Nagar-III, New Delhi-24 
16 National Heart Institute 49, Community Centre, East of Kailash, New Delhi-65 
17 Bansal Hospital A-1, New Friends Colony, New Delhi-65  All Surgeries except Heart surgeries 
18 Bhagat Chandra Hospital RZ-F-1/1, Mahavir Enclave-II, Kalam Colony, New Delhi-45 
19 Deepak Memorial Hospital  Vikash Marg Ext-II, Delhi-92 
20 Goyal Hospital & Urology Centre E-4/8, Krishna Nagar, Delhi-51 
21 Jeewan Mala Hospital 67/1 & 66A/2, New Rohtak Road, Delhi-05 
22 Jeewan Anmol Hospital Mayur Vihar Phase-I, Opposite Pratap Nagar, Delhi-91 
23 M.G.S. Hospital Rohtak Road, Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi-26 
24 Panchsheel Hospital C-3/63A, 64A, Wazirabad Road, Yamuna Vihar, Delhi-53 
25 Jain Hospital 177-178, Jagriti Enclave, Delhi-92  Uro-Surgery and General Surgery Only 
26 Jeewan Nursing Home & Hospital 2B, Pusa Road, New Delhi-05 
27 Khandelwal Hospital & Urology Centre B-16, East Krishna Nagar, Delhi-51 
28 Bharti Eye Foundation  1/3 East Patel Nagar, New Delhi-08  Eye Surgery Only 
29 Center For Sight  B 5/24, Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi-29 
30 Dr. Pattnaik’s Laser Eye Institute C-2, Ground Floor, Lajpat Nagar-III, New Delhi-24 
31 Narang Eye Institute  B-8, Derawal Nagar, Delhi-09 
32 Shroff Eye Centre  A-9, Kailash Colony, New Delhi-48 
33 Visitech Eye Care  A-10, South Extn, Part-II, New Delhi-49 
34 Asian Institute of Medical Sciences Sec-21A, Badkal Flyover Road, Faridabad  NCR Hospitals 
35 Metro Heart Institute  Sector 16-A, Faridabad 
36 Sarvodaya Hospital YMCA Road, Sector 8, Faridabad 
37 Park Hospital J-Block, Sec-10, Opposite Court, Faridabad 
38 Max Super Speciality Hospital W-3, Sec-1, Vaishali, Gaziabad 
39 Narinder Mohan Hospital & Heart Centre Mohan Nagar, Gaziabad 
40 Yashoda Hospital & Research Centre  III-M, Nehru Nagar, Gaziabad 
41 Yashoda Super Speciality Hospital H-1, Koushambi, Gaziabad 
42 Park Hospital Q-Block, South City-II, Sector-47, Sohna Road, Gurgaon 
43 Metro Hospital & Heart Institute H-Block, Palam Vihar, Gurgaon 
44 Medanta - The Medicity  Sector-38, Gurgaon 
45 Metro Heart Institute  X-1, Sector 12-12, L-94, Noida 
46 Prakash Hospital  D-12, Sector-33, Noida 
47 Kailash Hospital & Heart Institute H-33, Sector-27, Noida 
H-33, Sector-27, Noida 
48 ICARE Eye Hospital  E-3A, Sector 26, Noida 

The surgical benefits are free for Delhi residents only and there is no cap on family income. A patient need a referral from any of the 30 government hospitals and 25 polyclinics. In order to prove residential status, a patient need to provide one of these: 
  1. Adhar card 
  2. Driving license 
  3. Passport 
  4. Extract of Electoral roll