All vacant posts at ESI hospitals, dispensaries filled up: Mohindra
Saturday, 01/06/2019
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Chandigarh : Fulfilling yet another commitment made to the people of the state, the Health and Family Welfare Department has issued appointment letters to 50 medical officers and five medical officer specialists for its ESI hospitals and dispensaries. Similarly, for the BBMB-run hospitals, the Punjab government has issued appointment letters to 11 specialist doctors and nine medical officers. With this, 31 posts of doctors earmarked for Punjab stand filled up. Disclosing this, Health Minister Brahm Mohindra, said, “These posts were lying vacant for more than five years on account of shortage of doctors in the Health Department. With the appointment on these 55 doctors, we have achieved the milestone of cent per cent availability of doctors in ESI hospitals and dispensaries. These posts of doctors and specialists were vacant in ESI hospitals and dispensaries since long which was the biggest handicap in providing quality health services to the insured persons of lower income group working in industrial units and establishments.” The Health Minister said that recently the Council of Ministers approved the proposal for filling up of vacant posts in ESI Hospitals on contract basis as and when they fall vacant. Contractual appointment is initially for one year and is extendable year wise. He said that the medical officer would get a monthly remuneration of Rs 50,000 and medical officer (specialist) Rs 1 lakh with an annual increase of 3 per cent. Mohindra said that the department has been entrusted with management and administration of six ESI hospitals and 69 dispensaries in the state. He said that the Health Department is required to ensure adequate manpower in these ESI hospitals and dispensaries and to provide medical facilities to the insured persons.
He said that the expenditure on running of ESI hospitals and dispensaries is borne by the state and ESIC (Employees’ State Insurance Corporation, a statutory enterprise of the Government of India, New Delhi). He said that there are 12.92 lakh persons covered under the ESI scheme. Employees drawing monthly pay of less than Rs 21,000 working in industrial units and establishments having 10 or more persons are covered under this scheme.
