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New Delhi : Union Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav visited the proposed 300 bed ESIC hospital at Haridwar on September 10, 2021, in the presence of Rameswar Teli, Minister of State for Labour & Employment and Petroleum & Natural Gas.
Yadav, on the occasion, said that during the pandemic ESIC has provided relief to the people by throwing open its facilities for the general public and by announcing Covid-19 relief scheme, where the dependents of the Insured Person are given 90 per cent of the average wages of the deceased worker for the lifetime, according to a PIB release.
He said that in the 185th meeting of ESICat Rishikesh, it was decided that wherever in-house specialisation is not available at ESIC hospitals, patients would be auto-referred to empaneled private medical service providers and wherever any ESI facility is at a distance of more than 10 km from the IP (Insured Person), patients can directly approach the empaneled hospitals for treatment.
Yadav said that ESIC has already sanctioned Rs 297 Crore for the proposed 300 bed hospital at Haridwar, apart from the two hospitals sanctioned at Dehradun and Kashipur. He expressed hope that land for the hospitals at Dehradun and Kashipur would soon be made available. The Union Minister also said that the proposals for ESIC hospitals at Kotdwar and Khateema would be sympathetically viewed. He also added that all the support would be provided to the Uttarakhand government to hire medical professionals for the smooth functioning of ESIC hospital at Rudrapur, according to a PIB release.
He also added that apart from consolidating and simplifying labour laws into four codes, the government has launched a transformative initiative in the form of e-SHRAM. This centralised database is going to help over 38 crore unorganised workforce. It will be helpful in the last mile delivery of various social security schemes being implemented by the Central and State Governments.
Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Pushkar Singh Dhami promised to resolve the land allotment for ESIC hospitals at Dehradun and Kashipur.