Delhi To Open 187 Ayushman Arogya Mandirs By December 2025: Rekha Gupta

Delhi will soon add more Ayushman Arogya Mandirs (AAMs) in the city. Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta announced on November 9, 2025, the opening of 187 AAMs by the end of this year. Including them, there will be a total of 355 AAMs, including the existing 168. These AAMs are the local-level health centres to provide primary and essential healthcare to beneficiaries near their homes. These health centres offer comprehensive healthcare services, including preventive, curative, promotive, rehabilitative, and palliative care to people.

In simple words, the services include OPD services, screening of diseases like diabetes, hypertension, and cancers, free medicines, treatment for communicable and non-communicable diseases, giving advice about nutrition and wellness, providing physical therapy and palliative care for chronic and terminal illness, child and maternity healthcare, first-level emergency and trauma care, and mental health support.

Notably, Ayushman Mandirs are being established under the Ayushman Bharat initiative to provide healthcare close to people’s homes. The idea is to ensure affordable and comprehensive healthcare services that are easily accessible.

Previously, the government shared its plans to establish four to five Arogya Mandirs in every ward and 15-17 in each assembly constituency to reduce the healthcare burden on hospitals and shift quality care to these centres.

According to a previous report of PTI, the Municipal Council of Delhi (MCD) had the target of creating around 300 such centres. This was planned by including the upgradation of existing primary health centres (PHCs), sub-centres, maternity centres, and maternity homes, among others. In the recent announcement, Gupta said that there will no longer be AAMs running from rented premises. She said that the government has free spaces available and runs these healthcare centres from those government-owned spaces.

The reconstructed and redesigned centres are planned to be equipped with better facilities to ensure comprehensive primary healthcare for people. These upgraded centres will offer in-house laboratory testing, wellness services, sanitation, and dedicated care for mothers with babies and elderly patients. Note that 1,139 AAMs are planned to be established in Delhi by 2026 as part of the Ayushman Bharat Initiative, aiming for accessible and affordable healthcare for Delhi citizens.

As of June 30, 2025, there were a total of around 1.8 lakh (1,77,906) AAMs that were operational across the country.