ESI's ad campaign
Over the past fortnight, I have been noticing a massive ad campaign by ESI over press as well as TV making me wonder what new venture they are onto. Going by their past track record (refer letters below, addressed by me to the press), they can’t be up to much good.
Just last evening, I was parked beside the ESI hospital in Indiranagar for a while. It looked as desolate as ever. What a colossal waste of public money!
decadent ESI (sent on 25/02/05)
Congratulations to Karnataka Labour Minister, Mr Tanveer Sait, for his bold announcement of the intention to privatise the ESI hospitals and dispensaries. The extent of decay in the organisation is evidenced by the deplorable quality of construction of its own staff quarters across the road from the Indiranagar (ESI) hospital, whose own notoriety was epitomised by the incident of rats chewing up a new born baby, not too far in the past.
Open recognition of the reality that government ownership is the root cause of inefficiency and corruption is when a politician turns to becoming a true leader from being a mere politician. May Tanveer Sait's tribe increase.
parasite ESI (sent on 5/05/05)
It was none less than the veteran trade unionist and MP, Mr Gurudas Dasgupta, who described the ESI quite aptly as the parasite that lives off the sweat of the blue-collared worker. He could as well have added "that eventually kills him", the latest of its victims being Ambarish Hugar, the garment factory worker from Koramangala. It is surprising that his friends were unaware of ESI's notorious track record. Most are, and as a routine, they just bribe the staff to get a certificate (required for the purpose of lodging claims) that they are not equipped to handle the case, and move the patient to a private hospital for treatment. As such, the bed occupancy in a hospital like the one in Indiranagar never ever crosses some 10 percent at best. And this, in a country where the other government hospitals have on an average some three patients to a bed any given time. Not that there isn't any corruption there, but compared to the ESI, they shine out as paragons of virtue.
The Karnataka Labour Minister, Mr Tanveer Sait, had recently made bold to say that he was going to pursue the privataisation of the ESI hospitals & dispensaries. He will be doing a great favour to the working class if he actually succeeds in the pursuit.
Just last evening, I was parked beside the ESI hospital in Indiranagar for a while. It looked as desolate as ever. What a colossal waste of public money!
decadent ESI (sent on 25/02/05)
Congratulations to Karnataka Labour Minister, Mr Tanveer Sait, for his bold announcement of the intention to privatise the ESI hospitals and dispensaries. The extent of decay in the organisation is evidenced by the deplorable quality of construction of its own staff quarters across the road from the Indiranagar (ESI) hospital, whose own notoriety was epitomised by the incident of rats chewing up a new born baby, not too far in the past.
Open recognition of the reality that government ownership is the root cause of inefficiency and corruption is when a politician turns to becoming a true leader from being a mere politician. May Tanveer Sait's tribe increase.
parasite ESI (sent on 5/05/05)
It was none less than the veteran trade unionist and MP, Mr Gurudas Dasgupta, who described the ESI quite aptly as the parasite that lives off the sweat of the blue-collared worker. He could as well have added "that eventually kills him", the latest of its victims being Ambarish Hugar, the garment factory worker from Koramangala. It is surprising that his friends were unaware of ESI's notorious track record. Most are, and as a routine, they just bribe the staff to get a certificate (required for the purpose of lodging claims) that they are not equipped to handle the case, and move the patient to a private hospital for treatment. As such, the bed occupancy in a hospital like the one in Indiranagar never ever crosses some 10 percent at best. And this, in a country where the other government hospitals have on an average some three patients to a bed any given time. Not that there isn't any corruption there, but compared to the ESI, they shine out as paragons of virtue.
The Karnataka Labour Minister, Mr Tanveer Sait, had recently made bold to say that he was going to pursue the privataisation of the ESI hospitals & dispensaries. He will be doing a great favour to the working class if he actually succeeds in the pursuit.
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