Centre sanctions `384 cr for ESI hospital in Vizag

Visakhapatnam The construction of a 400-bed ESI hospital in Visakhapatnam, the largest hospital in the government sector for eligible employees in Andhra Pradesh will begin soon, according to BJP national spokesman and Rajya Sabha MP GVL Narasimha Rao.

The MP thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for sanctioning two new ESI Hospitals for Visakhapatnam. In reply to a question by Narasimha Rao, Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment Rameswar Teli stated that Rs 384.26 crore has been approved for the construction of 350-bed Employees' State Insurance (ESI) Hospital in Sheelanagar locality in Visakhapatnam. The hospital will have 50 additional beds in the super speciality. It will be spread over an area of 8.58 acres with a built-up area of 63,373 square metres, he informed.

The Minister added that the facilities at the hospital include Outdoor Patient Department (OPD), casualty, gyne, operation theatre, orthopaedic, electrocardiogram (ECG), radiology, laboratory, blood bank, general wards, cath lab, chemotherapy, Intensive Care Unit, neonatal as well as paediatric Intensive Care Units.

The matter regarding change of the land use for the hospital which has delayed the construction of the sanctioned hospital has been resolved and the permission was received on May 17, 2023, the Minister noted.