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Govt to turn ESICs with 200+ beds into medical colleges: Mandaviya
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
|June 01, 2025
Union labour minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Saturday said that the Centre would upgrade all hospitals of the Employees' State Insurance Corporations (ESIC) with 200 beds or more into full-fledged medical colleges as part of an ongoing expansion drive.
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The government also proposes to reserve 40% of seats in these medical colleges for wards of employees with ESIC's health insurance cover, the minister said while inaugurating a 30-bed facility at Kala Amb in Himachal Pradesh.
This story is from the June 01, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Bengaluru.
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