Lok Sabha Question No. 2455 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-12-14
Subject: ESI Hospitals
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: GOPAL CHINAYYA SHETTY, SUKHBIR SINGH JAUNPURIA, RAVINDRA BABU  PANDULA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2455

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 14.12.2015

## ESI HOSPITALS

†2455. SHRI GOPAL SHETTY:

SHRI SUKHBIR SINGH JAUNAPURIA: DR. RAVINDRA BABU:

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

- (a)the number of Employees State Insurance (ESI) hospitals/dispensaries functioning in the country, as on date, State/UT-wise particularly in Maharashtra;
- (b)whether  the  Government  proposes  to  upgrade  the  status  of  some
- ESI  hospitals/dispensaries  and  if  so,  the  details  thereof,  State/UTwise along with the funds sanctioned for the said purpose;
- (c)the  number  of  the  said  hospitals  functioning  in  rented  locations,
- State/UT-wise;
- (d)the details of funds spent on such hospitals during each of the last three years and the current year State/UT-wise; and
- (e)the number of workers benefited through the said hospitals and the details of facilities provided to them?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (IC) FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI BANDARU DATTATREYA)

(a): Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) has 151 ESI hospitals  in  the  country  at  present.  Details  of  hospitals/dispensaries State/UT-wise including Maharashtra are at Annex.

- (b): The ESI Corporation during its 166 th  meeting has inter-alia taken the following decisions to upgrade/improve health facilities:

- i) To upgrade 1/3 rd  of dispensaries in the first phase to six bedded hospital with:-
- a) 24x7 facilities
- b) Pathological facilities.
- c) X-ray facilities.
5. ii) Provision of Cancer detection/treatment facilities.
6. iii) Provision of Cardiology treatment facilities.
7. iv) Provision of Dialysis facilities in ESIC Model hospitals.
- v) Provision of Tele-medicine facilities.

Many of the above facilities  have  been  planned under  Public  Private Partnership (PPP). Since, the action on these are at various stages of planning  and  tendering,  funds  have  not  yet  been  sanctioned.  These will be within the existing budget of ESIC.

- (c): None of the ESI hospital is functioning in rented location.
- (d) & (e): Question  do  not  arise  in  view  of  reply  to  part  (c)  of  the question above.

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ANNEX

STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (a)  OF  LOK  SABHA  UN-STARRED QUESTION  NO.  2455  FOR  14.12.2015  BY  SHRI  GOPAL  SHETTY,  SHRI  SUKHBIR SINGH JAUNAPURIA AND DR. RAVINDRA BABU REGARDING ESI HOSPITALS.

State-wise details of ESI Hospitals in the Country

| Sl. No.   | Name of State    | No. of Hospitals   |
|-----------|------------------|--------------------|
| 1.        | Andhra Pradesh   | 5                  |
| 2.        | Assam            | 1                  |
| 3.        | Bihar            | 3                  |
| 4.        | Chandigarh       | 1                  |
| 5.        | Chhattisgarh     | -                  |
| 6.        | Delhi            | 4                  |
| 7.        | Goa              | 1                  |
| 8.        | Gujarat          | 12                 |
| 9.        | Haryana          | 6                  |
| 10.       | Himachal Pradesh | 2                  |
| 11.       | Jammu & Kashmir  | 1                  |
| 12.       | Jharkhand        | 3                  |
| 13.       | Karnataka        | 10                 |
| 14.       | Kerala           | 13                 |
| 15.       | Madhya Pradesh   | 7                  |
| 16.       | Maharashtra      | 14                 |
| 17.       | Meghalaya        | -                  |
| 18.       | Odisha           | 6                  |
| 19.       | Puducherry       | 1                  |
| 20.       | Punjab           | 8                  |
| 21.       | Rajasthan        | 6                  |
| 22.       | Tamil Nadu       | 10                 |
| 23.       | Uttar Pradesh    | 16                 |
| 24.       | Uttarakhand      | -                  |
| 25.       | West Bengal      | 15                 |
| 26.       | Telangana        | 7                  |
| Total     | Total            | 151                |

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