Lok Sabha Question No. 3264 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-08-09
Subject: ESI Hospitals/Dispensaries in Small Cities
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Sarmistha Sethi

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3264 TO BE ANSWERED ON 09.08.2021

## ESI HOSPITALS/DISPENSARIES IN SMALL CITIES

3264. SHRIMATI SARMISTHA SETHI:

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

- (a)the  number  of  ESIC  hospitals  providing  their  services  across  the country at present and the details of the criteria to set up new ESIC hospitals;
- (b)whether the Government is working on any scheme to set up ESIC hospitals in the small cities and if so, the details thereof;
- (c)whether  the  Government  plans  for  ESIC  Dispensary-cum-Branch office in every district of the country and if so, the details thereof along with the places/districts wherein the proposed ESIC Dispensary-cum-Branch offices are planned to be set up, State-wise including Odisha ; and
- (d)the time by which these are likely to be set up?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI RAMESWAR TELI)

- (a): At present, there are 160 Employees' State Insurance (ESI) hospitals  providing medical services across the country. Out of these, 50 hospitals are being directly run by ESI Corporation while remaining 110  hospitals  are  being  run  by  ESI  Directorate  of  respective  State Governments.  Details of the criteria to set up new ESI hospitals based on minimum number of Insured Persons  is placed at Annexure-I.
- (b): Setting up of ESI hospital in an area is approved based on the number of Insured Persons (IPs) in that  area  regardless  of size of

the  city.    Accordingly,  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.

- (c): Following criteria has been framed by the ESI Corporation for setting up of a Dispensary-cum-Branch Office (DCBO):-

'DCBO  shall  be  established/operationalized  in  only  such districts which have no ESI Dispensary and have Insured Person (IP) population of 3000 or more within a radius of 10 km.  In case a Branch Office exists in such  district, then the Branch  Office shall be converted into DCBO'.

List  of  68  functional  DCBOs  in  the  country  including  in  the state of Odisha is placed at Annexure-III. List of 10 newly sanctioned DCBOs in the States is placed at Annexure-IV.

- (d): No timeline has been assigned.  Setting up of a DCBO is a continuous and ongoing process.

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## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION  NO.3264  DUE  FOR  ANSWER  ON  09.08.2021  REGARDING  ESI  HOSPITALS/ DISPENSARIES IN SMALL CITIES

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.

## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (b) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION  NO.3264  DUE  FOR  ANSWER  ON  09.08.2021  REGARDING  ESI  HOSPITALS/ DISPENSARIES IN SMALL CITIES.

|   Sl. No. | State               | Location                                        |
|-----------|---------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
|         1 | Andhra Pradesh      | Guntur                                          |
|         2 | Andhra Pradesh      | Vizianagaram                                    |
|         3 | Andhra Pradesh      | Kakinada                                        |
|         4 | Andhra Pradesh      | Penukonda                                       |
|         5 | Andhra Pradesh      | Vishakhapatnam                                  |
|         6 | Andhra Pradesh      | Sri City, Nellore                               |
|         7 | Andhra Pradesh      | Atchyutapuram                                   |
|         8 | Bihar               | Muzzafarpur                                     |
|         9 | Chhatisgarh         | Bhillai                                         |
|        10 | Chhattisgarh        | Raigarh                                         |
|        11 | Delhi               | Narela                                          |
|        12 | Goa                 | North Goa                                       |
|        13 | Gujarat             | Alang                                           |
|        14 | Haryana             | Bahadurgarh                                     |
|        15 | Haryana             | Bawal                                           |
|        16 | Himachal Pradesh    | Kala Amb                                        |
|        17 | Jammu &Kashmir (UT) | Ompura, Srinagar                                |
|        18 | Jharkhand           | Deoghar                                         |
|        19 | Karnataka           | Doddabalapur                                    |
|        20 | Karnataka           | Bommsandra                                      |
|        21 | Karnataka           | Shivamoga                                       |
|        22 | Karnataka           | Narsapura                                       |
|        23 | Karnataka           | Haroholli                                       |
|        24 | Karnataka           | Bellary                                         |
|        25 | Kerala              | Perambavoor                                     |
|        26 | Leh ( UT)           | Leh                                             |
|        27 | Madhya Pradesh      | Pithampur                                       |
|        28 | Maharashtra         | Butibori, Nagpur                                |
|        29 | Odisha              | ESIC SS hospital, Jagannath Prasad, Bhubaneswar |
|        30 | Odisha              | Duburi                                          |
|        31 | Punjab              | SAS Nagar, Lalru                                |
|        32 | Rajasthan           | Bikaner                                         |
|        33 | Rajasthan           | Chittorgarh                                     |
|        34 | Tamil Nadu          | Tirupur                                         |
|        35 | Tamil Nadu          | Sriperumbudur                                   |

|   36. | Tamil Nadu    | Dindigul             |
|-------|---------------|----------------------|
|    37 | Tamil Nadu    | Vaniyamvadi          |
|    38 | Tamil Nadu    | Tuticorin            |
|    39 | Tamil Nadu    | Kanyakumari          |
|    40 | Telangana     | Ramagundam           |
|    41 | Uttar Pradesh | Meerut               |
|    42 | Uttar Pradesh | Firozabad            |
|    43 | Uttar Pradesh | Shahjahanpur         |
|    44 | Uttar Pradesh | Gajraula             |
|    45 | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun             |
|    46 | Uttarakhand   | Kashipur             |
|    47 | Uttarakhand   | Sidkul area Haridwar |
|    48 | West Bengal   | Siliguri             |
|    49 | West Bengal   | Haldia               |
|    50 | West Bengal   | Garshyamnagar        |

ANNEXURE-III

## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (c) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.3264 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 09.08.2021 REGARDING  ESI HOSPITALS/ DISPENSARIES IN SMALL CITIES.

## LIST OF FUNCTIONAL DISPENSARY-CUM-BRANCH OFFICES (DCBOS)

(AS ON 31.07.2021)

|   S.No. | State/UT                | Name Of The District   |   Location | Location        |
|---------|-------------------------|------------------------|------------|-----------------|
|       1 | Assam                   | Darrang                |          1 | Mangaldoi       |
|       2 | Andhra Pradesh          | Guntur                 |          2 | Guntur          |
|       2 | Andhra Pradesh          | Chitoor                |          3 | Tirupati        |
|       2 | Andhra Pradesh          | Srikakulam             |          4 | Srikakulam      |
|       2 | Andhra Pradesh          | Anakapalle             |          5 | Anakapalle      |
|       3 | Arunachal Pradesh       | Itanagar               |          6 | Papumpare       |
|       4 | Andaman &Nicobar Island | Port Blair             |          7 | Port Blair      |
|       5 | Bihar                   | Bhagalpur              |          8 | Bhagalpur       |
|       5 | Bihar                   | Begusarai              |          9 | Begusarai       |
|       5 | Bihar                   | Bhojpur                |         10 | Ara             |
|       6 | Gujarat                 | Bhavnagar              |         11 | Bhavnagar       |
|       6 | Gujarat                 | Bharuch                |         12 | Ankelshwar      |
|       6 | Gujarat                 | Valsad                 |         13 | Vapi            |
|       7 | Haryana                 | Faridabad              |         14 | Faridabad       |
|       7 | Haryana                 | Bahadurgarh            |         15 | Jhajjar         |
|       8 | Himachal Pradesh        | Mandi                  |         16 | Mandi           |
|       9 | Jammu &Kashmir          | Srinagar               |         17 | Srinagar        |
|       9 | Jammu &Kashmir          | Udhampur               |         18 | Udhampur        |
|       9 | Jammu &Kashmir          | Reasi                  |         19 | Katra           |
|       9 | Jammu &Kashmir          | Kathua                 |         20 | Kathua          |
|       9 | Jammu &Kashmir          | Samba                  |         21 | Baribrahma      |
|      10 | Jharkhand               | East Singhbhum         |         22 | Ghatshila       |
|      11 | Karnataka               | Chikkaballapura        |         23 | Chikkaballapura |
|      11 | Karnataka               | Chamrajnagar           |         24 | Chamrajnagar    |
|      11 | Karnataka               | Kodagu                 |         25 | Kodagu          |
|      11 | Karnataka               | Uttara Kannada         |         26 | Uttara Kannada  |
|      11 | Karnataka               | Chikkamagluru          |         27 | Chikkamagluru   |
|      12 | Kerala                  | Iddukki                |         28 | Munnar          |
|      13 | Madhya Pradesh          | Khargone               |         29 | Sanawad         |
|      13 | Madhya Pradesh          | Neemuch                |         30 | Khor            |
|      13 | Madhya Pradesh          | Sagar                  |         31 | Bina            |
|      14 | Maharashtra             | Mumbai                 |         32 | Colaba          |
|      14 | Maharashtra             | Aurangabad             |         33 | Waluj           |
|      14 | Maharashtra             | Buldhana               |         34 | Khamgaon        |
|      14 | Maharashtra             | Gondia                 |         35 | Gondia          |
|      14 | Maharashtra             | Sangli                 |         36 | Sangli          |
|      14 | Maharashtra             | Raigarh                |         37 | Panvel          |

|          |               | Chandrapur            | 38.        | Korpana             |
|----------|---------------|-----------------------|------------|---------------------|
|          |               | Wardha                | 39.        | Wardha              |
|          |               | Yavatmal              | 40.        | Yavatmal            |
|          |               | Palghar               | 41.        | Palghar             |
|          |               | Thane                 | 42.        | Murbad              |
|          |               | Nasik                 | 43.        | Sinnar              |
| 15.      | Manipur       | West Imphal           | 44.        | West Imphal         |
| 16.      | Odisha        | Sundergarh            | 45.        | Vedvyas             |
| 17.      | Punjab        | Barnala               | 46.        | Barnala             |
|          |               | Patiala               | 47.        | Rajpura             |
|          |               | Jhunjhunu             | 48.        | Jhunjhunu           |
|          |               | Chittorgarh           | 49.        | Chittorgarh         |
| 18.      |               | Ajmer                 | 50.        | Ajmer               |
|          | Rajasthan     | Pali                  | 51.        | Pali                |
|          |               | Jodhpur               | 52.        | Jodhpur             |
|          |               | Udaipur               | 53.        | Udaipur             |
| 19       | Tamilnadu     | Chennai               | 54. Estate | Ambattur Industrial |
|          |               | Hyderabad             | 55.        | Sanathnagar         |
|          |               | Kumarambheem Asifabad | 56.        | Sirpur Kaghaznagar  |
|          |               | Mahabubnagar          | 57.        | Mahabubnagar        |
|          |               | Nizamabad             | 58.        | Nizamabad           |
| 20       | Telangana     | Peddapalli            | 59.        | Ramagundam          |
|          |               | Sangareddy            | 60.        | Sadasivpet          |
|          |               | Warangal Urban        | 61.        | Warangal            |
|          |               | Yadadri Bhuvanagiri   | 62.        | Bibinagar           |
|          |               | Rangareddy            | 63.        | L.B. Nagar          |
|          |               | Kanpur Dehat          | 64.        | Kanpur Dehat        |
| 21       | Uttar Pradesh | Hapur                 | 65.        | Hapur               |
|          |               |                       | 66.        | Malda               |
| 22       | West Bengal   | Malda                 |            |                     |
|          |               | 24 South Parganas     | 67.        | Falta               |
|          |               | Bankura               | 68.        | Bankura             |
| Total 68 | Total 68      | Total 68              | Total 68   | Total 68            |

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (c) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION  NO.3264  DUE  FOR  ANSWER  ON  09.08.2021  REGARDING  ESI  HOSPITALS/ DISPENSARIES IN SMALL CITIES

## LIST OF NEWLY SANCTIONED DISPENSARY-CUM-BRANCH OFFICES (DCBOS)

|   Sl. No. | Name of State   | District/ DCBO                                              |
|-----------|-----------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|
|         1 | Madhya Pradesh  | 1. Khandwa 2. Hoshangabad 3. Rewa 4. Singrauli 5. Chindwara |
|         2 | Punjab          | 6. Ferozpur                                                 |
|         3 | Maharashtra     | 7. Jalna                                                    |
|         4 | Jharkhand       | 8. Hazaribagh 9. Palamu 10. Chaibasa,West Singhbhum         |

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