State’s ESI worker load 5th highest in country

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2 years ago

In a startling revelation, a Employees State Insurance Corporation (Esic) worker load in Punjab has come out to be almost 75 per cent more than the national Average.

It was also disclosed that the Centre had received a proposal from the to set up six new ESI hospitals.

The setting up of the hospitals is an ongoing process and was based on the number of insured persons in an area in accordance with the norms of the ESIC.

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the number of beds at hospitals run by ESIC tabled by Teli showed that Punjab had 12,16,430 workers insured under the ESIC for whom there were 300 sanctioned beds in the ESI hospitals, which work out to be 4,055 workers per ESI hospital bed.

This was almost 74.63 per cent more than the national average of 2,322 workers per ESI hospital bed.