ESIC all set to undertake major modernisation and expansion, will add Ayush unit: Minister in Lok Sabha

ESIC to modernize and add 100+ hospitals with advanced facilities, including Ayush units, for improved patient care.

Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) is all set to modernise/ upgrade and add over 100 new hospitals, said the Minister of State for Labour and Employment Sushri Shobha Karandlaje in Lok Sabha earlier this week.

Responding to questions by MP Dhairyasheel Sambhajirao Mane and Sudheer Gupta on Modernisation of ESIC Hospitals, the Minister said that the ESI Corporation has given in-principal approval for setting up of 105 new hospitals in the country.

She added that ESI hospitals across the country will be equipped with up-to-date and comprehensive facilities for better patient care. These facilities inter-alia include Operation Theatre (OT) Complex with Intensive Care Units, Labour complex with neonatal intensive care unit and paediatric intensive care units, various laboratory services, resuscitation area, state-of-the-art imaging services, Central sterile Supply Department (CSSD)/Theatre Sterile Supply Unit (TSSU), etc. 

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The Minister also noted that the Ayush Units and dispensaries will be established in the Corporation Hospitals and that Ayush units are to be established on co-location basis in those ESIC/ ESI Scheme (ESIS) hospitals & dispensaries and Dispensaries-cum-Branch Offices (DCBOs) where daily average allopathic Outdoor Patient Department (OPD) registration is more than 150 patients during preceding 12 months. 

“The 50 bedded ESIC Ayush hospitals are to be co-located with the existing ESI allopathic hospitals having 500 beds or more, out of which 50 beds are to be earmarked for Ayush hospital,’‘ said the Minister.

Stating that ESI Corporation has taken various steps to improve the quality of medical services in ESI Hospitals, Ms. Karandlaje explained that enhancement of sanctioned staff strength of ESIC hospitals, as per new norms is underway.