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| Collects crores; spends nothing to equip health centres | | ESIC facility : A tale of workers' agony | | Arun Singh
Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 3 : Gullible workers of private sectors are feeling dejected due to harassment they are subjected to in Employee's State Insurance health care centres which san basic healthcare infrastructure including proper laboratory and radiology machines which are defunct for months, forcing workers to look outward.
Sources told Early Times that as per ESIC rules the workers of private sectors who are covered under Employees' State Insurance Scheme of India are provided with socio-economic protection and their dependants as well covered under the scheme. Besides full medical care for self and dependants, that is admissible from day one of insurable employment. "But in ESI hospital Bari Brahmana workers have to face huge difficulties as the X-ray and Ultra Sound machines are out of order for the last six months due to some technical snags in them and hospital authority has not taken any step to make them functional till date thereby putting patients in deep trouble and distress by referring them to Government hospital Gandhi Nagar and Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) Jammu for these tests due to their negligence," they said.
The patients which visit the ESI Hospital Bari Brahmana in OPD have to undergo preliminary examinations by the doctors and accordingly doctors recommend the diagnostic tests and radiology tests as per initial observations but some tests are not done there and radiology machines are out of order for many months then these patients are referred to Government Hospital for these tests where patients have to suffer a lot due to rush in the hospital and have to wait for hours together for their turn, they alleged.
"The monthly ESI which is deducted from the worker of private sector is more than a government employee particularly of an army personal i.e 6% while less than one percent is deducted of the later but when facilities are compared nothing is given rather patients have to face harassment," they said further adding that in that case ESI doctors should be given authority to recommend for conduction of diagnostic test from reputed private laboratories which later should be reimbursed so that patients may feel respite from the crowded hospital queues. Moreover, despite the official timing of OPD which is 10 am to 4 pm but ESI health centres remain open from 10 am to 2 giving lame excuse that they have to do administrative works in next two hours, they maintained that even the OPD timing has not been displayed by any center. Pertinently, ESCI collected more Rs 40 crore in last financial year from Jammu province only. |
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