Goal to Deliver Doctors to Every Home, Mann Government’s Strategy to Prevent Diseases After Floods

Chandigarh, Sept 2025 : In Punjab, even though the floodwaters have receded, the real work begins when the government reaches village-to-village, home-to-home to normalize the situation. With this thought, the Aam Aadmi Party government started working, and today across Punjab people themselves are saying that for the first time there is a government that is not only giving orders but is itself standing in the field. The special health campaign started on 14 September has set a new example in the entire state. Such a large campaign to deliver health services simultaneously in 2,303 flood-affected villages has never been carried out before. Where earlier people had to run to hospitals for medicine, now the government itself is coming to their doorstep—with teams of doctors, kits of essential medicines, and full preparation to prevent disease.

The biggest feature of this campaign is that it is not the responsibility of just one department. Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann himself is monitoring it. Cabinet ministers, MLAs, party district in-charges, public representatives—everyone is visible in the field. Somewhere ministers are meeting people, somewhere MLAs are overseeing camp arrangements in villages. In every village, Aam Aadmi Party leaders and volunteers are standing with government teams, because this is not relief, it is an opportunity for public service. Every day, health camps are running from morning till evening, where doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and nursing students are jointly examining people. In villages without hospitals or health centers, schools, panchayat buildings, or anganwadis are turned into temporary medical centers. Every camp has essential medicines, ORS, Dettol, fever tablets, malaria-dengue testing kits, and first aid. The government has ensured no family is left out. ASHA workers are going house-to-house. Their only task: to check every household’s health, connect them to doctors if needed, and provide medicines. If a child is sick, an elder has fever, or a woman feels weak, treatment no longer waits. The government has decided that by 20 September every household will be reached at least once, and this work will continue even on Sundays without stopping.

Unprecedented preparation has also been made for fogging and mosquito control. For the next 21 days, continuous fogging is being done in every village. Teams are checking water sources house-to-house, and wherever there is suspicion of dengue or malaria, spraying is done immediately. All this is happening under a system—each block’s medical officer is responsible and reports are uploaded online every evening.

More than 550 ambulances are engaged in this work. Stockpiling of 85 medicines and 23 medical utility items has been done in advance. MBBS doctors, nursing staff, and pharmacy staff of big hospitals are engaged in this service. All departments have been instructed not to let this campaign stop—neither due to lack of resources nor shortage of staff.

When a government starts winning hearts with its work without speaking, praise naturally comes from people’s lips. That is what is happening in Punjab. Since health services, sanitation, and relief have been reaching people directly in villages, only one voice is coming from everywhere—that the Aam Aadmi Party government is truly our government. This campaign shows that in flood relief work, Mann government is reaching every street of every village, every member of every family. The continuous work under the leadership of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann shows that the government does not see responsibility as a burden but as an opportunity for service, and when people are in need, the government stands at the front. Today the people of Punjab are openly saying, “This is not just a government, this is our trust… we stand fully with the Aam Aadmi Party with Mann.”