A latest 50-bed ESIC hospital and sub-regional office of the Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) was opened in Tirunelveli on Tuesday.
Inaugurating the hospital, Kodikunnil Suresh, Minister of State for Labour & Employment, assured the Tamil Nadu Government that the Centre would provide all support to it in implementing the Employees State Insurance Scheme.
The hospital will provide quality healthcare facilities to 1.44 lakh insured persons and 5.5 lakh beneficiaries in the Southern part of Tamil Nadu, particularly Tirunelveli, Tuticorin and Kanyakumari districts, a Labour Ministry release sad.
At present, the OPD (out patient department) will provide medical services for surgery, pediatrics, general medicine, orthopaedics, among other things. For critical care, it will refer the patients to tie-up hospitals for “cashless super speciality treatment”. The hospital has been constructed at an approximate cost of Rs 55 crore, the release added.