NEW DELHI, June 19: The Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) today decided its health insurance scheme ESI will be implemented throughout the country by the end of 2022.
Presently, the Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) Scheme is fully implemented in 443 districts and partially implemented in 153 districts. A total of 148 districts are not covered under the ESI Scheme.
The ESIC, under the chairmanship of Minister of Labour and Employment Bhupender Yadav, in its 188th meeting held today has taken significant decisions to augment the medical care and service delivery mechanism across the country, a Labour Ministry statement said.
It has been decided that the ESI Scheme will be implemented in the entire country by the end of 2022, it added.
By the end of the year, the districts which are partially covered and not covered under the scheme will be fully brought under the ambit of the ESI Scheme, the statement said.
The medical care services will be provided through establishing new DCBOs (dispensary cum branch offices), by empanelling mIMP (Modified Insurance Medical Practitioner) and tie-up hospitals of Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY).
Besides, the ESIC has decided to set up 23 new 100-bedded hospitals across the country.
These include six hospitals in Maharashtra at Palghar, Satara, Pen, Jalgaon, Chakan and Panvel; four in Haryana at Hisar, Sonepat, Ambala and Rohtak; two hospitals each in Tamil Nadu (at Chengalpattu and Erode), Uttar Pradesh (Moradabad and Gorakhpur) and Karnataka (Tumkur and Udupi).
ESIC will also set up one hospital each in Andhra Pradesh (Nellore), Chhattisgarh (Bilaspur), Goa (Mulgaon), Gujarat (Sanad), Madhya Pradesh (Jabalpur), Odisha (Jharsuguda) and West Bengal (Kharagpur).
Besides these hospitals, five dispensaries at 62 places will also be opened.
Further, 48 dispensaries in Maharashtra, 12 dispensaries in Delhi and 2 dispensaries in Haryana will be opened. (PTI)
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