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The Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) is providing cashless comprehensive health care services including advance super speciality and tertiary care benefits to ESI beneficiaries. To further fine tune delivery of advance health benefits i.e. super speciality and tertiary care, ESIC has taken the following steps:-

ESI Corporation is bearing the total expenditure on provisions of super speciality services including diagnostic services directly w.e.f. 01.08.2008. 

Tie up arrangements for super speciality and advanced tertiary care services are made directly by ESI Corporation in the States with reputed Government and private medical institutions. 

The Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) is now serving over five crore beneficiaries all over the country. This was announced by the Union Minister of Labour & Employment, Shri Mallikarjun Kharge at its 148th meeting held here today.


The E.S.I. Corporation approved its Annual Accounts and Annual Report for the financial year 2008-09 in this meeting which was held under the chairmanship of Shri Kharge. The Minister of State for Labour & Employment and Vice Chairman of Corporation Shri Harish Rawat also attended the meeting.

The Corporation has been able to spend Rs. 1123.22 crore on Medical Care and Rs. 380.70 crore on Cash Benefit. The Revenue Income for the Corporation has also increased by Rs. 463.13 crore from Rs. 3989.31 crore in 2007-08 to Rs. 4452.45 crore in the year 2008-09 which represents an increase of 11.61% over the previous year.

Employees' State Insurance Corporation proposes to up grade the various specialities in some hospitals and provide modern equipments as per the requirements of each Hospital. ESIC is running one super speciality hospital at Kollam in Kerala. Another Super Speciality Hospital is proposed at Sanath Nagar, Hyderabad, for which construction is in progress.

In super speciality hospitals, the facilities likely to be made available are Cardiology, Cardio-thoracic Vascular surgery, Gastro-enterology, Nephrology, Paediatric surgery in the first phase. Later on, as per requirement further super speciality facilities can be added. In addition, in different ESI Hospitals, super speciality services such as Cardiology, Nephrology are being developed as per requirements