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ESIC not providing proper medical care to workers
PHOTO : GB Hospital. TIWN File Photo

AGARTALA, July 27 (TIWN):While the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) Hospitals are supposed to provide quality medical services to those working in an organised sector, proper medical care is not being provided to the latter.

Majority of the industrial workers lamented that they were not receiving required medical care at the ESIC dispensaries and model hospitals.

In case of a sudden accident, these workers have to incur an additional cost for getting emergency treatment at other hospital, as there is no facility for the same at the ESIC dispensaries and model hospitals after 5.30 pm on all working days as well as on Sundays.

The system of getting treatment under tie-up scheme is cumbersome as the formalities cannot be completed till a patient is discharged.

Though employers and workers contributed 6.50 per cent of their wages to the ESIC, the dispensary is  functioning had been reeling under staff crunch.

“It appears that specific systems have been introduced to save expenditure of the corporation at the cost of providing required treatment to beneficiaries. ESIC belongs to workers and various problems confronting them should be solved quickly,” trade union leader Nirad Baran Das.

The union  leader urged the Sahid Chowdhury, Minister for Labour and Employment,  to take appropriate measures for solving workers’ problems, otherwise they would be compelled to launch an agitation.

“The corporation needs to seriously introspect its working, start improving immediately and become worker friendly, so as to restore confidence among the industrial workforce, ”  Das  added. 

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