Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 5: Bari Brahmana Industries Association (BBIA) has expressed serious concern over refusal of secondary specialized treatment to the insured industrial workers in private hospitals despite the fact that they and their employers are spending crores on their insurance cover every year.
A meeting of the BBIA was held today under the chairmanship Lalit Mahajan (president BBIA) in the presence of Tarun Singla senior vice president, Ajay Langer – vice president, Viraaj Malhotra- general secretary and others to discuss the issue.
The members showed their serious concern that the ESI Hospital, Bari Brahmana refused to provide the secondary specialized treatment to insured industrial and other workers, which is not available in the ESI Hospital due to non- availability of requisite infrastructure and doctors, in the private empanelled hospital as per ESIC Headquarter office order No U-16/12/01/2018/agenda /reporting item -med-II dt 27/01/2020, resulting great resentment amongst the Industrial workers registered with the ESI Corporation who are paying their hard earned money towards the contribution to the Corporation.
They said the matter was taken up with the Medical Superintendent ESI Corporation Bari Brahmana who intimated that the stoppage of treatment in the private empanelled hospitals has been discontinued due to instructions from the head office.
It is pertinent to mention here that ESI Hospital Bari Brahmana failed to provide specialized treatment to the Industrial workers in the Hospital due to non-availability of the doctors and other infrastructure and refer the patients to Govt Medical College Jammu where it will take months to get the operations dates due to long waiting queues, resulting the patient have no option but to get the treatment from private hospitals and paying the amount from their hard earned money for treatments from Private hospitals whereas, it is the responsibility of the ESI Corporation to provide the requisite healthcare treatment as they are collecting crores of rupees from employees as well as employers contribution.
BBIA requested Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State for Labour and Employment (Ind Charge), Director General Employee’s State Insurance Corporation, Commissioner/Secretary, Labour Department, J&K Govt, Regional Director, ESIC to look in to the matter and issue necessary directions to the concerned officials for the restoration of the facility to insured persons to get the healthcare treatment in private empanelled hospitals for the specialized treatment.
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