Lok Sabha Question No. 80 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-07-18
Subject: Upgradition of Dispensaries and Hospitals
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Y. S. Avinash Reddy, Asaduddin Owaisi

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 80

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 18.07.2022

## UPGRADITION OF DISPENSARIES AND HOSPITALS

80.    SHRI Y.S. AVINASH REDDY: SHRI ASADUDDIN OWAISI:

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

- (a)the number of districts in the country covered fully, partially or not covered by ESIC;
- (b)whether it is a fact that tribal, backward and hilly state districts are not covered fully or partially or not covered at all by ESIC to provide health facilities to workers;
- (c)if so, the detailed plan chalked out by ESIC to establish hospitals, dispensaries, primary health centres and mobile vans equipped with basic treatment facilities in these districts;
- (d)the  number  of  hospitals,  dispensaries  and  basic  health  centres established by ESIC in these districts during the last two years;
- (e)whether  the  Government  has  taken  any  decision  to  upgrade  the dispensaries  of  ESICs  into  ESIC  Hospitals  and  if  so,  the  details thereof; and
- (f)the details of the dispensaries being upgraded in the State of Andhra Pradesh into ESIC Hospitals?

## ANSWER

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

(a): At present, Employees' State Insurance (ESI) Scheme have been extended to 596 districts, which include 444 districts fully covered and 152 partially covered.

- (b) & (c): The  ESI  hospitals  and  dispensaries  are  established  at  various locations  of  the  country  in  accordance  with  ESIC  norms  based  on  the Insured  Person  (IP)  population  in  the  area,  irrespective  of  the  area  being tribal, backward or hilly.

To provide facilities to newly notified districts, ESIC has made a provision  for  engagement  of  private  medical  practitioners  under  modified Insurance  Medical  Practitioners  (mIMP)  scheme  and  collaborated  with Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) for secondary and tertiary medical care services to ESI beneficiaries.

- (d): During last 2 years, ESIC has established 1 hospital, 34 dispensaries and 20 Dispensary-cum-Branch Offices (DCBOs).
- (e): The  ESI  Corporation,  in  its  meetings  held  on  06.12.2017  & 19.02.2019, approved  the  following criteria for upgradation  of an ESI dispensary  into  a  6  bedded  and  30  bedded  ESI  hospital,  which  inter-alia includes: -

## For 6 bedded hospital:

- Dispensary to be housed in own building
- i.
- ii. No  ESIC/ESI  Scheme  (ESIS)  hospital  within  the  radius  of  10  km.  in metro cities and 20 km. in other areas, and
- At least a 5-doctor dispensary covering minimum 10000 IP population,
- iii. or average OPD of 200 per day during the last 3 years

## For 30 bedded hospital:

- i. Minimum 20000 IP population within a radius of 25 km of the proposed location, and
2. ii.
3. No ESI healthcare institution within the radius of 25 km.
4. (f): No proposal has been received from the state of Andhra Pradesh for upgradation of ESI dispensary into a 6 or 30 bedded hospital.

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