<span style="color: #000000;">Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin today inaugurated the Centre for Health Care Scheme at Your Doorstep in Chennai. Speaking on this occasion, he said that the scheme, which was launched this month, has benefitted more than ten lakh people in different parts of the state. The Chief Minister said that it is time for the government to go to the doorstep of the people and offer services to them.<br />''<br />''In connection with World Hearing Disability Week, Mr.Stalin gave 98-lakh rupee worth state-of-the-art medical equipment to assess the hearing disability at the Rajiv Gandhi Government Hospital and also distributed hearing aids to children and the elderly.<br />''<br />''Under the scheme, medical help will be offered at the doorstep for those with non communicable diseases. The scheme is launched in seven districts, one thousand 172 Health Sub-Centres, 189 Primary Health Care Centres and fifty Community Health Centres. It involves door to door check up for people by a field team including women health volunteers, village health nurses, health inspectors, palliative care staff nurses and physiotherapists with the monitoring support of other public health field staff. Medicines will be sent to the residences of those patients diagnosed with hypertension and diabetes.</span><br />