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The buildings are being constructed under ‘ground floor plus one’ plan.“Construction of the UPHC in Gandhinagar near Zafar Gate is completed. These healthcare centres would provide services for 8 hours convenient to the community they are catering to but the preferable timing would be from noon to 8pm.Deputy engineer Qamar Shaikh said guidelines for the construction were given by the office of the director of NUHM. The construction of health centres at Sadat Nagar, Kabir Nagar, Shivajinagar, Central Naka, and Chetana Nagar in Harsul would be completed within two months,” Shaikh said.Following the construction, the engineering department would hand over the buildings to municipal officer, health, Nita Padalkar.When contacted, Padalkar said the key roles of the health centres will be to provide outpatient department and laboratory services. “The UPHCs are intentionally being built near high risk and slum areas. done...Aurangabad: The civic body which is undertaking construction of urban primary healthcare centres (UPHCs) under the central government’s National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) has confirmed that construction of six out of the eight buildings will be completed in the next two months.Depending on the spatial distribution of the slum population, the city has received sanction for eight UPHCs..