The Employees' State Insurance Corporation has decided to issue new ESI hospital cards to nearly 7.5 lakh insured persons in West Bengal. | |
| The total expenditure incurred in the process would be close to Rs 1.75 crore, informed B K Sahu, additional commissioner and regional director, ESIC, West Bengal region. |
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| The new cards will carry the photograph of the entire family of the card holder, along with a bar code in a laminated cover. |
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| While Sahu did not spell out any definite time frame for the task, he said till now the corporation had already issued nearly 47,000 new cards in the state. |
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| In order to match the quality standards of the ESI hospitals to private ones, the corporation had taken steps like de-centralising the procedures for admitting patients, maintaining minimum records and starting patient grievance cell at the ESIC head office. |
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| The cell will monitor the grievances redressal machinery across 22 ESIC regional offices in the state. |
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| Also, the submission of the return of contribution in Form-6 has been de-centralised by the corporation. |
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| In effect, the forms can be submitted to the branch offices near the factory or establishment. |
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| Also, the branch offices are now empowered with preparing "Live Lists" enabling the insured persons for speedy drawl of the benefits. |
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