Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) planned to fill 6,400 vacancies including posts for more than 2,000 doctors and teaching faculty wiping out the backlogs for manpower that remained, says Union Minister of Labour, Employment, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav.

ESIC is also working towards providing skills based training programmes to the workers for paramedical jobs and has launched certificate courses in ten disciplines.

Delivering the Second Graduation Day Keynote Address at the ESIC Medical College and Hospital at K K Nagar in Chennai, the Union Minister said that as part of the union government’s objective of the modernisation of facilities under the ‘Nirman Se Shakti’ initiative, we are setting up 23 new 100 bedded hospitals across the country.

“We are also setting up over 60 dispensaries that will ensure the delivery of quality medical care service to insured workers and their dependents in the vicinity of their residences. The Union Government is ensuring that our services are available to a wider population. We are focused towards creating an infrastructure for easy access to medical services for our country’s workers, and ESIC itself has had a huge role to play in it,” added Bhupender Yadav. 

“As part of promoting preventive healthcare practices amongst the masses, the ESIC department has launched medical health checkups for fifteen industrial clusters - this communicates a significant shift in approach,” said Yadav.

” Under the vision of our Prime Minister Narendra Modi, we are targeting occupational diseases. Occupation-based health checkups and follow-ups are being done regularly, especially for women beedi and brick kiln workers. Moreover, preventative and curative solutions for their health problems are also being researched,” commented Union Minister Bhupender Yadav.

Additional Secretary Labour and Employment, Government of India; DG ESIC Dr. Rajendra Kumar; and Dean Dr. Kalidas Chavan also attended the event.