Labour Ministry Expands ESIC Health Check-Up Scheme To 15 Cities

New Delhi: Labour minister Bhupender Yadav on Saturday introduced the growth of the pilot scheme of annual preventive well being check-up programme for worker state insurance coverage company (ESIC) members who're aged above 40 years, to 15 cities from the present 5.The minister had in December 2021, launched the scheme for ESIC members aged above 40 years in pilot mode at ESI hospitals in Ahmedabad, Faridabad, Hyderabad, Varanasi and Kolkata.Addressing at 187th assembly of the ESIC, Mr Yadav stated, "In the last (ESIC) meeting, we had approved the proposal that we will launch a pilot scheme for free medical check of insured persons of the age of 40 and above in five hospitals in Hyderabad, Faridabad, Varanasi, Kolkata and Ahmedabad. The results are satisfactory." He added that now ESIC has permitted the second part of pilot and expanded it to whole 15 cities.However, the title of 10 cities to be added to the pilot undertaking can be introduced later.Under this scheme, factories in addition to micro small and medium enterprises might be thought of as one unit and ESIC will coordinate with them for preventive well being check-ups of the employees, he knowledgeable.Mr Yadav urged industrial associations and commerce unions to return collectively for facilitating free medical test up of MSMEs (in a single bunch) of their space the place staff employed in every unit is from 10 or 15.On the disparity in scales of medical professionals and others personnel working in ESIC and ESIS (ESIC hospitals run by states) hospitals, the minister stated that it might be bridged and that remuneration of medical doctors and employees might be revised.