ESIC panel on medical conditions

Committee will be set up in every state and can sanction upto Rs 50 lakh for executing special repair works

The Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), under the Union labour ministry, announced setting up of state executive committee to improve medical infrastructure.

The decision was taken in a meeting chaired by the Union minister for labour and employment Narendra Singh Tomar in New Delhi on Thursday.

The committee will be setup in every state and can sanction upto Rs 50 lakhs for executing special repair works.

The panel will have periodic review of the reports of the local committees and may even carry independent inspections of the ESI medical facilities. It is also empowered to sanction upto Rs 3 crore for special repair of 200 bedded ESI hospitals and upto Rs 5 crore for special repair of ESI hospitals with over 200 beds.

 

"ESIC will keep the insured persons and their family members in centre while deciding any issue," Tomar told at a press conference after the meeting.

 

"The Corporation also approved the increase in the ceiling on medical expenditure being re-imbursed to the states from Rs 1,500 per insured person family per annum to Rs 2,000 per annum," the labour ministry said.

 

A pilot project for taking up periodical health check up of insured persons who are above 50 years of age with certain conditions, at three ESIC Hospitals initially was also given a go-ahead at the meeting.
 

The Corporation also approved the increase in the ceiling on medical expenditure being re-imbursed to the states from Rs 1,500 per insured person family per annum to Rs 2,000 per annum

 

"The Insurance Medical Practitioners (IMP) system of providing medical facility to the beneficiaries will be strengthened by  enhancing package remuneration to the IMPs, empowering them to provide for basic pathological investigations, permitting them to issue specified medicine to the beneficiaries to be supplied by the nearest ESIS Dispensary," the Labour Ministry said in a statement.