What are the other locations for ESI Medical colleges? Work-in-progress
Following is an excerpt from a thaindia report of July 13, 2008.
The Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) Corporation that provides healthcare facilities to industrial workers has decided to step into the field of medical education. In an innovative move, it will set up 28 medical colleges and start post graduation courses by the next academic session. “From service provider we are going to be a medical education network. We are setting up 28 medical colleges by the 2009 academic session,” said Pravash C. Chaturvedi, director general of ESI Corp.
“We are aware that there is a shortage of doctors and it’s no different for ESI hospitals across the country. By the next academic year, we are planning to start 500 seats at the post graduation level,” Chaturvedi told IANS in an interview.
He said the ESI Corp, which is under the Ministry of Labour and Employment, aims to set up a medical college in every state and become self-reliant.
“The adding of 500 medical seats will help aspiring students every year, and in return we will get qualified doctors to serve in our own hospitals.
“A while ago we had put our proposal before the health ministry and have already got the go ahead. We have the capital and manpower, and now have the ministry’s support too,” he said.
The ESI Corp is associated with over 331,000 factories and establishments across the country and provides benefits to about 10 million workers and their families. “There are over 40 million beneficiaries,” he said.
It applies to industrial workers drawing wages up to Rs.10,000 per month.
Below we will try to compile information about the location of these medical colleges in various states. (Any pointers from the readers are most welcome.)
- Himachal Pradesh – Mandi.
- Karnataka – Gulbarga, Bangalore.
- Kerala – Paripally (Kollam).
- Tamilnadu – Coimbatore.
- Bihar – Patna.
- West Bengal – Howrah.
- Rajasthan – Alwar.
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