• Center to set up 23 new 100-bed hospitals as well as 60 dispensaries across the country to provide quality medical care
Union Minister Bhupendra Yadav said that the Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) plans to fill 6,400 vacancies, including over 2,000 doctors and teaching faculty posts. ESIC is also working towards providing skill-based training programs to workers and has started certificate courses in 10 disciplines.
Delivering the second graduation day keynote address at ESIC Medical College and Hospital in KK Nagar, Chennai today, Yadav said the center would be set up as part of the central government's objective of modernizing facilities under the 'Nirman se Shakti' initiative. 23 new 100-bed hospitals across the country, as well as 60 dispensaries to provide quality medical care.
“We are also setting up more than 60 dispensaries which will ensure quality medical care service to the injured workers and their dependents in the vicinity of their residences. The central government is ensuring that our services are available to the wider population. We are focused are on creating an infrastructure for easy access to medical services for the workers of our country, and ESIC has a big role to play in this.This ESIC Medical College has provided Out Patient Department (OPD) service to 5,76,329 beneficiaries with a daily average of OPD census of 2,153 since January this year. Today, we are working towards PAN India coverage under ESIC and are continuously creating more infrastructure and capacities. We have opened one ESIC Hospital in three cities of India. Cath lab has been started. Yadav said.
“As part of promoting preventive health care practices among the public, the ESIC department has introduced medical health check-up for 15 industrial clusters – this signals a significant change in approach”, he said, adding That it is not the employees who go to the hospitals, but ESIC is now reaching out to the workers at their workplaces.
Further on occupational diseases, the minister said, “Under the vision of our Prime Minister Narendra Modi, we are targeting occupational diseases. Occupation-based health check-ups and follow-ups are being done regularly, especially for women beedi and brick kiln workers. In addition, preventive and curative solutions for their health problems are also being researched."
No comments:
Post a Comment