BENGALURU: Union Minister for Labour and Employment Bandaru Dattatreya inaugurated Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) Nursing College and auditorium in Indiranagar on Tuesday.
The college has 40 seats per batch and offers four-year BSc nursing course. He announced that ESIC dispensaries at 12 locations in the state will be upgraded to six-bedded hospitals at a cost of Rs 100 crore. He said that a 200-bed ESI hospital will be set up at Bommasandra at a cost of Rs 150 crore.
Union Minister Ananth Kumar said the Ministry for Chemicals, Fertilisers and Pharmaceuticals will sign an MoU with the labour ministry to have the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Aushadi Kendra at hospitals run by it.