Perception of the staff towards employees state insurance hospitals: an empirical study

The Employees’ State Insurance Scheme, formulated under the Employees State Insurance Act, 1948, provides medical care and cash benefits to insured persons in the contingencies of sickness, maternity, disablement and death due to employment injury. Under the medical care is also provided to families of the insured persons. In the present paper it is an attempt by the authors to understand the perception level of the staff working in the ESICs. For this purpose 76 staff approached out of total existing 337 staffs and only 59 responses received from the respondents. On an average 60% satisfaction level recorded regarding the functioning of ESIC hospitals in Odisha.