A new nationwide survey, also covering the north east and Andaman, will be taken up to identify new beneficiaries of the Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said here today.
"As per the latest findings, around 2 lakh new insured persons have been added to existing 11 lakh ESIC beneficiaries' list in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states," an official release quoted Dattatreya as saying.
He said the existing dispensaries will be upgraded to six-bedded hospitals and more services will be added in these hospitals.
The minister of state for Labour said that Sanathnagar ESIC hospital Medical College here will be started in September for which the required inspection has been done by the Medical Council of India (MCI).
Dattatreya further informed that medical ambulances will be launched for the city construction workers.
A 100-bedded hospital for beedi workers will be constructed in Sircilla and Nirmal towns of Telangana.
He said TB vaccines will be provided for the beedi workers, especially for women.
In Andhra Pradesh, new ESIC hospitals will be inaugurated
at Vijayanagaram (100 beds), Visakhapatnam (300 beds), Kakinada (100 beds), Tirupati (100 beds).
"A new 100-bedded super speciality hospital will be constructed at the new capital city Amaravathi," he said.
Deliberations will be held on these decisions at a ESIC review meeting scheduled on February 12.
