A 500-bedded ESIC Hospital will be built on a plot of about 8 acres at IMT Manesar. The construction of this hospital will cost more than Rs 500 crore, in which people will be given outstanding facilities like emergency services, OPD, ICU, gynaecology and obstetrics, pediatrics, cardiology, cancer treatment, blood bank, etc. Apart from the Gurugram district, the people of Rewari, Nuh, and adjoining districts will also be benefitted from this
A 500-bedded Hospital of Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), in Manesar of Gurugram district, will provide health facilities to the workers as well as the common people, and a nursing college will also be opened in Manesar. While addressing a function as chief guest in the inauguration program of the hospital Haryana Chief Minister, Manohar Lal said that the labour force is a very big section of society and plays a significant role in building works. Efforts are being made by the Government to ensure they are prosperous and today the confidence of the labour force has been enhanced with the laying of the foundation stone of the Hospital. He elaborated that healthy labourers is a sign of development of industries and it will further augment the production and progress of the country.
Further, he said that more than 50 lakh labourers are registered on Shram Shakti Portal in Haryana and 25 lakh people are registered in Labour Department.
Besides, a proposal of opening a Nursing College of ESIC at Manesar, Gurugram had been approved and the State Government would identify and provide 5-acre land for this college soon.
500-bedded hospital of ESIC would be built in Manesar with the assistance of the Central Government.
Also, he placed a demand before the Union Minister that on the basis of registration of the insured workers, 500-bedded ESI hospital should be sanctioned in Gurugram as well. Apart from this, in order to augment the health facilities, provision has been made for setting up of two 200-bedded hospitals at each district in Haryana.