In 2006, the Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) had decided to take over the administration of ESI Medical Scheme from those States who were willing to hand over the same to the ESI Corporation. The ESI Corporation has so far taken over 22 such ESI hospitals from the State Governments. ESI Corporation has taken and proposes to take a number of measures to improve the delivery of medical care services under ESI Scheme like increasing fee to be paid to Insurance Medical Practitioners (IMP), setting up of State Executive Committees with delegated powers in every state, heavy dispensaries to have minimum investigation facilities etc.
This was stated by Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, the Minister of State(IC) for Labour and Employment in response to a written question in Rajya Sabha today.
This was stated by Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, the Minister of State(IC) for Labour and Employment in response to a written question in Rajya Sabha today.
