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ESIC to set up 15 medical colleges

Foundation laid for Rs. 131-crore ESIC super speciality hospital at Sanathnagar

Post-graduate courses will be started this year
About 400 students to be admitted into the college

---PHOTO: NAGARA GOPAL

New facility: Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and Union Ministers Oscar Fernandes and Pallam Raju at the foundation-laying ceremony of the ESIC super speciality hospital in Hyderabad on Sunday.

HYDERABAD: Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment Oscar Fernandes announced here on Sunday that 15 medical colleges would be started by the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) in the country.

Speaking at the foundation-laying ceremony for the Rs.131-crore ESIC super speciality hospital at Sanathnagar here to cater for workers from the South, he said post-graduate courses would be started this year. About 400 students would be admitted. The ESIC would start training programme for paramedical staff, doctors and super-specialists.

Insurance coverage

He stated that insurance coverage would be provided by ESIC to unorganised workers. Workmen in every nook and corner would be provided access to healthcare.

Responding to the plea of Sanathnagar legislator M. Shashidhar Reddy for a 33 kv sub-station in the proposed superspeciality hospital campus, he said the land would be given. Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who laid the foundation, quoting Mr. Fernandes, said one of the proposed medical colleges with 500 beds would be set up in Sanathnagar. He said that revolutionary changes were taking place in the health sector in the State with the introduction of Rajiv Arogyasri insurance scheme. Many States were looking at Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka had already decided to implement it.

Super specialities

The proposed hospital with 126 beds would be ready in 18 months and have various super specialities including cardiac and neuro sciences. It would also have state-of-the-art operation theatres, imaging centre and laboratory services. G. Sanjeev Reddy, MP, lamented that services provided by ESI hospitals to workers were not satisfactory with the institutions lacking adequate doctors and medicines.

Labour Minister G. Vinod and Anjan Kumar Yadav, MP, spoke.

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