N.K. Premachandran, MP, has scotched rumours that medical care for ESI beneficiaries from the Paripally ESI Medical College Hospital will be withdrawn from October 30. In a statement here on Wednesday, he said a section of the hospital staff and a few others with vested interests were behind the rumours. “The aim of such people is to block the taking over of the medical college by the State government,” he said.
He said as per the norms in the MoU for the takeover, the beneficiaries would get more benefits. Moreover 35 children of ESI beneficiaries would be able to do MBBS at the college for a fee of Rs.24,000 a year. “It is to safeguard the interests of the workers that the State government decided to take over the medical college hospital when the Union government decided that the ESIC should not run medical colleges.
