A Parliamentary panel has found that Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) is flushed with funds but health facilities provided by it are deteriorating.
"Amid deteriorating health facilities, lack of hospitals, scarce beds and shortage of doctors and specialists, the organisation is flushed with funds," observed a Public Accounts Committee in its performance audit report tabled in Parliament on Friday.
The panel suggested that there is much need to be done for effective delivery of medical benefits and expediting cash benefits to the insured persons.
State-run ESIC provides health insurance and medical services to formal sector workers and their dependends.
The panel suggested that all the districts of the country should be covered by the ESIC within five years and all unorganised/self-employed workers who are not covered under any other Act of the Parliament/Scheme for medical benefits/insurance and mining workers may be brought under this scheme with in a stipulated time frame.