NOIDA: The Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) hospital in Noida’s Sector 24 is ramping up facilities for nearly 11 lakh insured workers and their families in GB Nagar, taking the total to over 40 lakh people.
While two new dispensaries are to come up in sectors 22 and 80 by next year, the only dispensary in Greater Noida is being ramped up and shifted to Sector Alpha 2 and will become operational from July.
While the 300-bed ESIC hospital in Noida caters to the entire district with IPD facilities, a proposal for another 100-bed ESIC hospital is cleared for Greater Noida, for which the land location process is underway.
The hospital is expected to come up in the next two years, taking the load off the Noida facility that currently caters to patients from GB Nagar, Khora in Ghaziabad, Bulandshahr, Mathura and Aligarh.
“We are currently running a two-doctor OPD dispensary in Greater Noida that we have taken on rent from GNIDA.
This dispensary was running near Pari Chowk commercial area and was converted from an Ayurvedic hospital that had stopped operating here.
Now, this dispensary is being shifted with better facilities and more rooms from the earlier five.
The new area is better located with easy access to public transport and is more open,” said Dr Balraj Bhandar, director of ESIC hospital.
Dr Bhandar added that there is a plan for an ESIC hospital in Greater Noida as nearly 5 lakh insured persons (IP) workers are from this region.
“We will start with 50 beds initially and convert into a 100-bed hospital later.
Once we demarcate the land, it will take about 1.5 to 2 years to complete construction work.
Land finalisation is expected to complete this year followed by tendering from our head office CPWD (Central Public Works Department),” said Dr Bhandar.
In Noida, Dr Bhandar said, two new ESIC dispensaries are under construction.
“These will be OPD facilities.
Work orders have been issued for them.
The construction is expected to complete in a year.
These dispensaries will be bigger than the Greater Noida one and will have four to five doctors in one shift,” said Dr Bhandar.
Dr Brahmnish Sitara from ESIC hospital in Sector 24 added the 300-bed hospital in sector 24 is currently the main facility for IP workers with a catchment of nearly 20 lakh people.
While the pre-Covid OPD footfall in sector 24 hospital was 2,500-3,000, currently the hospital is getting about 2,000 patients per day in the OPD.