(a)whether the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) is organizing camps for
healthier India, especially in the rural areas like SC/ST/OBC areas during the 11th
Five Year Plan;
(b)if so, the year-wise and State-wise details thereof;
(c)the funds allocated and spent in this regard for the said period; and
(d)the future action plan prepared with foreign organizations in this regard?
MINISTER OF STATE FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI KODIKUNNIL SURESH)
(a): The Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) is organising health check-up
camps for Insured Persons and their dependent family members at ESIC Hospitals and
Dispensaries as well as areas where the population of Insured Persons is concentrated
including their work places. Further, ESIC has started wellness vans in all ESI
Hospitals for providing promotive and preventive health care services to Insured Persons
and their families near their work places as well as near their residence.
(b) & (c): No Plan funds are provided to the ESI Corporation by the Central Government.
Expenditure on health camps is incurred by the ESI Corporation out of its own funds.
(d): At present, there is no collaboration with any foreign organisation for organising
health camps.