The ESI Hospital at Malkapuram is a State hospital, when the old hospital building reached a state of ruin, the hospital was temporarily shifted to the Health City,” an ESIC source told The Hindu. The land allotted for construction of the ESI Hospital at Sheela Nagar in Visakhapatnam has become a grazing ground for cattle. Visakhapatnam city has a large number of PSUs and industries and an ESI Hospital would be of use to the large number of workers. “The State government is trying to shift the 500-bed ESI Hospital and the proposed medical college to Vijayawada,” M. Jagadiswara Rao, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) All India vice-president, has alleged. “The Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) wanted to build one super speciality hospital and a medical college in every State.
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