The Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) recently opened a 126 bed super-speciality hospital at Sanathnagar, Hyderabad. The facility is expected to benefit about 1567350 employees.
According to the ESIC, its 126 bedded ESIC Hospital at Sanathnagar, Hyderabad will provide the best medical services to the insured persons and their families in Andhra Pradesh. At present, there are about 32899 employers covering about 1567350 employees and 4350969 beneficiaries in the Hyderabad region.
Inaugurating the hospital, Mallikarjun Kharge, Union Minister, Labour and Employment, said, “Many other similar projects of ESIC are under construction with an estimated cost Rs.9,000 crore.”
The hospital is expected to immensely help the workers of Andhra Pradesh. It has a built up area of 17241 square meters with an estimated cost of about Rs.130 crore. It is centrally air conditioned with super-speciality facilities like cardiology and cardio thoracic surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, nephrology and urology and paediatrics surgery. The hospital will provide indoor, outdoor, emergency and diagnostic services to the insured workers of Hyderabad in particular and of the state in general.
ESI Corporation has been providing services to the insured persons through its upgraded and modified hospitals and has tie-up arrangements with many other hospitals on cashless basis. Corporation has added huge infrastructure and provides benefits through 148 hospitals, 42 hospitals annexes, 1402 ESI dispensaries, 1540 panel clinics.