Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 14
  • Issue: 1

Retrospective Analysis of the Occupational Injuries in Eye Patients in E.S.I. Hospital

  • Author:
  • A D Mehta, Rohit Kapoor
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 80 to 81

Eye Department, E.S.I. Hospital, Basaidarapur, New Delhi

*Corresponding author: Rohit Kapoor, Chief Medical Officer, E.S.I. Hospital, Basaidarapur, New Delhi 110015. E-mail: drrohkap992001@yahoo.co.in

Online published on 20 February, 2014.

Abstract

The E.S.I. Scheme has the largest medical infrastructure under one umbrella, in India.Medical care is provided through its huge network of 150 hospitals, 1403 E.S.I. Dispensaries/ISM Units, 1447 Panel clinics and 6536 IMOs. The E.S.I. Corporation incurred about Rs. 2689.62 crore on the delivery of medical care in year 2012–13. Eye trauma is number one cause of vision loss in industrial workers2. We are presenting a retrospective analysis of eye injuries coming in the EYE DEPARTMENT of E.S. I. Hospital, basaidarapur, New Delhi 110015.

Keywords

Employee State Insurance (E.S.I.), Occupational, Injuries, Eye Trauma