Labour Minister Bhupendra Yadav announces employment to 5000 Doctors at ESIC Hospital group

Gurugram: 5000 doctors would be employed by the Union Labour and Employment Ministry at the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) hospitals. The announcement was made by the Union Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav while attending the 187th meeting of ESIC in Gurugram on Saturday.

He said that there was a huge dearth of doctors and staff at the ESIS hospitals. "Therefore, it was decided that vacancies for appointing 5000 doctors will be filled in this calendar year expeditiously," he said, as per a media report in the Economic Times.

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The meeting was attended by top government officials of West Bengal, Assam, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand and UP besides presence of all representatives of employers, employees, government representatives and experts in the medical field. 

The minister added that the pending projects of the ESIC would be expedited along with the construction work of the hospitals of the ESIC, adding that the doctors and staff availability would also be taken care of.

Yadav stated that the health check-up of labourers would be conducted by the ESIC hospitals and factories and MSME clusters would be considered as a unit, adding that ESIC would coordinating with them for the preventive health check-ups of the workers. He said, "The health check-up will be conducted in a total of 15 cities as part of the ongoing pilot project."

He urged the doctors to join the ESIC hospitals which mostly serve poor people. He further assured that remuneration of the doctors and staff would be revised by the ESIC corporation.

The minister said that an open, digital and transparent transfer policy would be soon put into force. Further, he inaugurated two ESIC management dashboards - construction project dashboard and hospital dashboard. 

The health dashboard would provide key information related to the performance of the ESI hospital, along with information on the current occupancy and OPD footfall at the hospital dashboard. Important information about various construction projects of the ESIC would be made available on the construction dashboard. Yadav said, "Both the dashboards will not only help in better monitoring but also result in efficient and effective implementation," as per the Economic Times report.

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