The Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) on Sunday determined its medical insurance scheme ESI might be carried out all through the nation by the top of 2022.
Presently, the Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) Scheme is absolutely carried out in 443 districts and partially carried out in 153 districts. A complete of 148 districts are usually not coated underneath the ESI Scheme.
The ESIC, underneath the chairmanship of Minister of Labour and Employment Bhupender Yadav, in its 188th assembly held on Sunday has taken important selections to enhance the medical care and repair supply mechanism throughout the nation, a labour ministry assertion mentioned.
It has been determined that the ESI Scheme might be carried out in your complete nation by the top of 2022, it added.
By the top of the 12 months, the districts that are partially coated and never coated underneath the scheme might be absolutely introduced underneath the ambit of the ESI Scheme, the assertion mentioned.
The medical care providers might be supplied by way of establishing new DCBOs (dispensary cum department workplaces), by empanelling mIMP (Modified Insurance Medical Practitioner) and tie-up hospitals of Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY).
Besides, the ESIC has determined to arrange 23 new 100-bedded hospitals throughout the nation.
These embody six hospitals in Maharashtra at Palghar, Satara, Pen, Jalgaon, Chakan and Panvel; 4 in Haryana at Hisar, Sonepat, Ambala and Rohatak; two hospitals every in Tamil Nadu (at Chengalpattu and Erode), Uttar Pradesh (Moradabad and Gorakhpur) and Karnataka (Tumkur and Udupi).
ESIC can even arrange one hospital every in Andhra Pradesh (Nellore), Chhattisgarh (Bilaspur), Goa (Mulgaon), Gujarat (Sanad), Madhya Pradesh (Jabalpur), Odisha (Jharsuguda) and West Bengal (Kharagpur).
Besides these hospitals, 5 dispensaries at 62 locations can even be opened.
Further, 48 dispensaries in Maharashtra, 12 dispensaries in Delhi and a couple of dispensaries in Haryana might be opened.
These hospitals and dispensaries will make sure the supply of high quality medical care to the insured staff and their dependents.
To present high quality medical care, the ESIC is augmenting its infrastructure by establishing new hospitals and upgrading the prevailing ones, it acknowledged.
The ESIC in its assembly additionally determined to permit insured staff and their members of the family to avail cashless medical care providers by way of Ayushman Bharat PMJAY empanelled hospitals in all of the areas the place the ESI Scheme is partially carried out or to be carried out, or the place present ESIC healthcare amenities are restricted.
Beneficiaries of ESI Scheme in 157 districts are already availing cashless medical care by way of this tie-up association.
It was determined that Radiation Oncology and Nuclear Medicine Departments might be established at three ESIC Medical College and Hospitals at Sanathnagar, Faridabad and Chennai.
It would be the for the primary time that such providers might be made out there at ESIC-owned amenities, it added.
Two cath labs at ESIC Medical College and Hospital at Sanathnagar, Telangana and Alwar, Rajasthan might be established.
Decision was additionally taken to improve the prevailing 200-bedded ESIC Hospital in Pune to a 500-bed facility.
The upgradation of this hospital will profit 7 lakh staff and their members of the family in Pune.
Other essential selections taken within the assembly included enhancing the medical care providers for insured staff and their members of the family.
The ESIC has determined to take over the state government-run ESIS Hospital, Sonagiri, Bhopal to straight run it underneath its administrative management.
For bridging the hole of non-availability of specialists/tremendous specialists in state government-run ESIC Hospitals, ESIC will now have interaction the required professionals.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”