There has been a debate among intelectuls of Orissa in various egroup forums that Orissa state Government is not doing enough in higher educational, health & hospital facilities for other parts of Orissa compared to Bhubaneswar region.
There was a good oppertunity for the state Government to push ESIC medical college to some other place like KBK which deserves more than Bhubaneswar.
Orissa state Government is establishing Capital Medical College (Government) in Bhubaneswar, there is plan for AIIMS at Bhubaneswar and there are many good number of private medical colleges such as KIMS, High Tech, IMS, Vedanta University in Puri, etc coming around Bhubaneswar region in addition to Government SCB medical college in Cuttack. Thus, there is no point to establish more Government medical college in state capital region rather than establishing Government medical college in KBK region. Since Kalahandi is epicenter of KBK such a collge could be established in Kalahandi.
Private medical college rarely fulfill requirement of secondary health facilities in backward region like KBK as there are many poor people living in those regions. Government medical colleges in Kalahandi would be more beneficial than private one for poor people.
Earlier there was suggestion (click here) for Government medical colleges in Balangir and Kalahandi instead of private medical colleges.
Since Mr. Pushpendra Singh Deo is current minister of state (independent charge) for labor and employment in Orissa Government under which ESIC comes, he may able to influence to establish such a college in KBK.
Being an able leader if he can bring and establish the ESIC Medical College in Kalahandi it would be appreciable and people of Kalahandi will be obiliged to him. Like other political leaders even Mr Singh Deo like to establish the same in his home constituency, Dharmagarh, it should be fine in Kalahandi region, indeed geographical epicenter of KBK lies somewhere in this sub-division.
We hope he takes this initiative seriously.
Following is the recently published report on this issue in Expressbuzz on May 29, 2009.
ESIC’s medical hanging fire
Expressbuzz, May 29, 2009
ROURKELA: The proposal to set up a Rs 500-crore medical college and hospital (MCH) by the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) in the State has not made much headway as the State Government continues to dither over its location.
The State Government’s reported proposal to set up the MCH at Balangir was virtually turned down by the ESIC owing to inadequate ESIC stake-holders there. Sources said now the government has proposed the MCH in Bhubaneswar.
CITU Orissa unit general secretary Bishnu Mohanty recently met the ESIC director-general and impressed upon him to locate the MCH at Rourkela. Reiterating that Rourkela is the ideal location, Mohanty argued that since 70 per cent of the Insured Persons (IPs) of ESIC are concentrated in Sundargarh and its neighbourhood mining and industrial districts of Jharsuguda, Keonjhar and Sambalpur no other place in Orissa would best cater to the needs of the poor working class. Moreover, sources said, the MCH would also extend sophisticated health care to the general public of the areas at affordable cost.
At present, the Ispat General Hospital (IGH) at Rourkela caters to the needs of people of the industrial and mining belt apart from adjacent Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand states.
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