Puducherry to get ESIC super-specialty hospital soon
Puducherry: Puducherry would soon have a super-speciality hospital of the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) with the territorial government coming forward to provide a 5.5-acre site near here.
Inaugurating the new regional office of the ESIC here, Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment (Independent Charge) Santhosh Kumar Gangwar told reporters that Chief Minister V Narayanasamy had informed him that his government would provide the 5.5-acre land to facilitate the setting up of the facility.
He also said the Narendra Modi-headed NDA government was keen that labourers across the country should have all the statutorily approved medical facilities.
The regional office was constructed at a cost of Rs 6.42 crore and comprises of a six-bed dispensary, a lab, a pharmacy and a registration counter.
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