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What is the criteria for getting health services directly in any nearby private hospital?
ESIC has around 26 under-construction hospitals and 16 at the conceptual stage.
New Delhi: To ease the hardship being faced by ESI Beneficiaries in availing medical services in case of non-availability of ESIC s Health Care infrastructure i.e. Hospital or Dispensary or Insured Medical Practitioner (IMP) within a radius of 10 KM of their residences, the government has said that such ESI beneficiaries can now avail medical care services from nearby ESIC empanelled hospitals (pan-India) without the need for any referral from an ESI dispensary or hospital. Keeping in view the sizeable increase in the number of ESI beneficiaries subsequent to expansion of ESI Scheme in newer geographical areas, efforts are constantly being made to strengthen the ESI medical care infrastructure to provide better medical services in the vicinity of beneficiaries residence, an official release said.