The Hindu Business Line : Hyderabad to house ESI super speciality hospital

THE Union Government has decided to set up a 100-bed super speciality hospital in Hyderabad to cater to the needs of the workers and other employees covered under the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) in South India.

Speaking to newspersons on Tuesday, the Union Labour Minister, Mr K. Chandrasekhara Rao, said that the hospital would come up at ESI hospital campus at Sanatnagar instead of a 15-acre plot allotted by the Government at Nizampet on the city outskirts.

The new hospital at Hyderabad is part of the Centre's plan to set up four such super speciality hospitals, one each in New Delhi, Kolkata and one in Western India, with each hospital costing about Rs 50 crore.

The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, will lay the foundation stone for the hospital shortly, Mr Rao said.

According to the Union Minister, the ESI Corporation will sanction another Rs 19.36 crore to upgrade and improve facilities in the seven ESI hospitals and 10 dispensaries in the State, including the one in Sanatnagar.

The ESI hospitals and dispensaries that will be given a facelift include Chittivalasa (Vizianagaram), Visakhapatnam, Sadashivpet and Ramachandrapuram (Medak), Eluru, Sirpur Kagaznagar, Vijayawada, Warangal, Nizamabad, Adoni, Rajahmundry, Kakinada, Goshamahal, Jeedimetla, Patancheru, and Nellore.

Further, an amount of Rs 6.35 crore will be spent to improve facilities in the Sanatnagar hospital, where a 100-bed rest room for attendants of the patients would be taken up shortly, apart from improving the facilities, Mr Rao said.

The State Labour Minister, Mr G. Vinod, said the State Government would prepare a proposal soon seeking Rs 15 crore of Central assistance to take up improvements in other ESI hospitals and dispensaries in the State.

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