- Monday, March 10, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
Indian home minister Amit Shah on Monday (26) laid the foundation stone of a 350-bedded ESIC (Employees’ State Insurance Corporation) Hospital in Sanand in his home state of Gujarat which is going to polls later this year, his ministry said in a statement. He is on a two-day visit to the western state.
The beds can be upgraded to 500.
The hospital will also have a number of facilities, including outpatient department, indoor facilities, laboratory, radiology, obstetrics, intensive care unit, ultrasound services, etc.
स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं को विश्वस्तरीय बनाने हेतु मोदी जी एक होलिस्टिक अप्रोच से काम कर रहे हैं।
मोदी जी ने ESIC स्कीम को और उपयोगी बनाकर देशभर के श्रमिकों को सामजिक सुरक्षा दी है।
साणंद में 350 बेड के ESIC अस्पताल का शिलान्यास किया। इससे 12 लाख श्रमिकों व क्षेत्रवासियों को लाभ होगा। pic.twitter.com/DygqnGoVMT
— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) September 26, 2022
“Construction of the hospital spread over 9.5 acres would entail an expenditure of ₹500 crore (£56.5 million),” the ministry said.
The hospital would look after 12 lakh (1.2 million) employees and their families, along with local villagers of Sanand, Shah said.
The home minister, who is also India’s first minister of cooperation and the second-most powerful man in India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after prime minister Narendra Modi, reiterated on the occasion the latter’s three-pronged holistic approach towards health infrastructure. It includes — expansion of medical science infrastructure and human resources; mainstreaming traditional Indian medicine like Ayush; and expanding the availability of expertise through technology.
Shah also inaugurated during his visit a flyover and a primary health centre in Gandhinagar, the constituency he represents in the Lok Sabha or Lower House of the Indian parliament.
While the six-lane flyover was inaugurated near Bhadaj village near the city of Ahmedabad; the health centre was inaugurated in Virochannagar village of Sanand taluka.
The BJP has been in power in Gujarat for more than two decades now. Modi was its chief minister between 2001 and 2014 and Shah was a minister of the state at that time.
