Lok Sabha Question No. 97 (STARRED), answered on 2021-07-26
Subject: ESI Hospitals
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Dharambir Singh, Sanganna Amarappa Karadi

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK SABHA

## STARRED QUESTION NO. 97

TO BE ANSWERED ON 26.07.2021

## ESI HOSPITALS

†*97. SHRI DHARAMBIR SINGH: SHRI SANGANNA AMARAPPA:

Will  the  Minister  of  LABOUR  AND  EMPLOYMENT  be  pleased  to state:

- (a)the details of Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) hospitals set up in the country, State-wise;
- (b)whether the Government plans to set up new ESI hospitals in the country  and  if  so,  the  details  thereof,  State-wise  particularly  in Charkhi  Dadri,  Mahendragarh  and  Nuh  districts  of  Haryana  and Koppal district in Karnataka;
- (c)if so, the time by which the said new ESI hospitals are likely to be set up; and
- (d)the details of the criteria followed by the Government for setting up new ESI hospitals?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI BHUPENDER YADAV)

(a) to (d): A statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  TO  (d)  OF  LOK  SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 97 TO BE ANSWERED ON 26.07.2021 ASKED BY SHRI DHARAMBIR  SINGH AND SHRI SANGANNA  AMARAPPA REGARDING  'ESI HOSPITALS'

(a)  to  (d)      There  are  160  hospitals  under  the  Employees'  State  Insurance  (ESI) Scheme,  of  which  50  hospitals  are  run  by  the  Employees'  State  Insurance  (ESI) Corporation and  110 by  the  ESI  Directorate  of  respective  State  Governments.      The State/UT wise details are placed at Annexure-I .

Setting up of new ESI hospitals is a continuous and ongoing process.  The ESI  Corporation  has  given  approval  for  setting  up  of  50  new  ESI  hospitals.  The State/UT wise details of these hospitals are placed at Annexure-II .

The existing norms for setting up of a new ESI hospital are as under:

|   Sl. No. | Number of beds      | Minimum number of Insured Persons (IP)   |
|-----------|---------------------|------------------------------------------|
|         1 | 100 bedded hospital | 50,000                                   |
|         2 | 150 bedded hospital | 1,00,000                                 |
|         3 | 200 bedded hospital | 1,50,000                                 |
|         4 | 250 bedded hospital | 2,00,000                                 |
|         5 | 300 bedded hospital | 2,50,000                                 |
|         6 | 350 bedded hospital | 3,00,000                                 |
|         7 | 400 bedded hospital | 3,50,000                                 |
|         8 | 500 bedded hospital | 4,00,000                                 |
|         9 | 600 bedded hospital | 5,00,000                                 |

The  Insured  Person  (IP)  population  is  taken  in  a  radius  of  25  kms.  and  there should not be any other ESI hospital within a radius of 50 kms

.

The ESI Corporation has also approved setting up of 30 bedded ESI hospital to provide certain medical care services in areas with minimum 20000 IPs in a plain area and 15000 IPs in North eastern region/ hilly area.

The present IP population in Charkhi Dadri, Mahendragarh and Nuh districts of Haryana and Koppal district of Karnataka is 4084, 3555, 2314 and 16,144, respectively.

## ANNEXURE-I

## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART  (a)  To  (d)  OF  THE LOK  SABHA  STARRED  QUESTION  NO.  97  FOR  ANSWER  ON 26.07.2021.

## DETAIL OF STATE/UT WISE NUMBER OF ESI HOSPITALS

| Sl. No.   | Name of State/UT     |   No. of ESIC Hospitals |   No. of run Hospitals | State ESIS   | Total no. of ESI Hospitals   |
|-----------|----------------------|-------------------------|------------------------|--------------|------------------------------|
| 1.        | Andhra Pradesh       |                       0 |                      4 |              | 4                            |
| 2.        | Assam                |                       1 |                      1 |              | 2                            |
| 3.        | Bihar                |                       2 |                      2 |              | 4                            |
| 4.        | Chandigarh (UT)      |                       1 |                      0 |              | 1                            |
| 5.        | Chhattisgarh         |                       2 |                      0 |              | 2                            |
| 6.        | Delhi (UT)           |                       4 |                      0 |              | 4                            |
| 7.        | Goa                  |                       0 |                      1 |              | 1                            |
| 8.        | Gujarat              |                       4 |                      7 |              | 11                           |
| 9.        | Himachal Pradesh     |                       1 |                      1 |              | 2                            |
| 10.       | Haryana              |                       3 |                      4 |              | 7                            |
| 11.       | Jammu & Kashmir (UT) |                       1 |                      0 |              | 1                            |
| 12.       | Jharkhand            |                       2 |                      1 |              | 3                            |
| 13.       | Karnataka            |                       3 |                      8 |              | 11                           |
| 14.       | Kerala               |                       3 |                      9 |              | 12                           |
| 15.       | Madhya Pradesh       |                       1 |                      6 |              | 7                            |
| 16.       | Maharashtra          |                       3 |                     12 |              | 15                           |
| 17.       | Odisha               |                       2 |                      7 |              | 9                            |
| 18.       | Puducherry(UT)       |                       0 |                      1 |              | 1                            |
| 19.       | Punjab               |                       1 |                      6 |              | 7                            |
| 20.       | Rajasthan            |                       4 |                      4 |              | 8                            |
| 21.       | Tamil Nadu           |                       2 |                      8 |              | 10                           |
| 22.       | Uttar Pradesh        |                       6 |                     10 |              | 16                           |
| 23.       | Uttarakhand          |                       1 |                      0 |              | 1                            |
| 24.       | Telangana            |                       2 |                      5 |              | 7                            |
| 25.       | West Bengal          |                       1 |                     13 |              | 14                           |
| Total     | Total                |                      50 |                    110 | 160          |                              |

## ANNEXURE-II

## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a)  To  (d)  OF  THE LOK  SABHA  STARRED  QUESTION  NO.  97  FOR  ANSWER  ON 26.07.2021.

## LIST OF APPROVED ESI HOSPITALS

|   Sl. No. | State            | Location          | NO. OF BEDS SANCTIONED   |
|-----------|------------------|-------------------|--------------------------|
|         1 | Andhra Pradesh   | Guntur            | 100                      |
|         2 | Andhra Pradesh   | Vizianagaram      | 100                      |
|         3 | Andhra Pradesh   | Kakinada          | 100                      |
|         4 | Andhra Pradesh   | Penukonda         | 100                      |
|         5 | Andhra Pradesh   | Vishakhapatnam    | 400                      |
|         6 | Andhra Pradesh   | Sri City, Nellore | 100                      |
|         7 | Andhra Pradesh   | Atchyutapuram     | 30                       |
|         8 | Bihar            | Muzzafarpur       | 100                      |
|         9 | Chhatisgarh      | Bhillai           | 50*                      |
|        10 | Chhattisgarh     | Raigarh           | 100                      |
|        11 | Delhi            | Narela            | 30                       |
|        12 | Goa              | North Goa         | 100                      |
|        13 | Gujarat          | Alang             | 50                       |
|        14 | Haryana          | Bahadurgarh       | 100                      |
|        15 | Haryana          | Bawal             | 100                      |
|        16 | Himachal Pradesh | Kala Amb          | 30                       |
|        17 | Jammu & Kashmir  | Ompura, Srinagar  | 100                      |
|        18 | (UT) Jharkhand   | Deoghar           | 100                      |
|        19 | Karnataka        | Doddabalapur      | 100                      |
|        20 | Karnataka        | Bommsandra        | 200                      |
|        21 | Karnataka        | Shivamoga         | 100                      |
|        22 | Karnataka        | Narsapura         | 100                      |
|        23 | Karnataka        | Haroholli         | 100                      |
|        24 | Karnataka        | Bellary           | 100                      |
|        25 | Kerala           | Perambavoor       | 100                      |
|        26 | Leh ( UT)        | Leh               | 30                       |
|        27 | Madhya Pradesh   | Pithampur         | 100                      |
|        28 | Maharashtra      | Butibori, Nagpur  | 200                      |

| 29.   | Odisha        | ESIC SS hospital, Jagannath Prasad, Bhubaneswar   | 150   |
|-------|---------------|---------------------------------------------------|-------|
| 30.   | Odisha        | Duburi                                            | 50*   |
| 31.   | Punjab        | SAS Nagar, Lalru                                  | 50*   |
| 32.   | Rajasthan     | Bikaner                                           | 100   |
| 33.   | Rajasthan     | Chittorgarh                                       | 30    |
| 34.   | Tamil Nadu    | Tirupur                                           | 100   |
| 35.   | Tamil Nadu    | Sriperumbudur                                     | 100   |
| 36.   | Tamil Nadu    | Dindigul                                          | 100   |
| 37.   | Tamil Nadu    | Vaniyamvadi                                       | 100   |
| 38.   | Tamil Nadu    | Tuticorin                                         | 100   |
| 39.   | Tamil Nadu    | Kanyakumari                                       | 100   |
| 40.   | Telangana     | Ramagundam                                        | 100   |
| 41.   | Uttar Pradesh | Meerut                                            | 100   |
| 42.   | Uttar Pradesh | Firozabad                                         | 30    |
| 43.   | Uttar Pradesh | Shahjahanpur                                      | 30    |
| 44.   | Uttar Pradesh | Gajraula                                          | 30    |
| 45.   | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun                                          | 100   |
| 46.   | Uttarakhand   | Kashipur                                          | 100   |
| 47.   | Uttarakhand   | Sidkul area Haridwar                              | 300   |
| 48.   | West Bengal   | Siliguri                                          | 100   |
| 49.   | West Bengal   | Haldia                                            | 100   |
| 50.   | West Bengal   | Garshyamnagar                                     | 100   |
| TOTAL | TOTAL         | TOTAL                                             | 4990  |

* Upgradable to 100 beds.

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