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Nation Success Story

HEALTHY WORKERS, LABOURERS’ FAMILIES

AMRIT KAAL'S SOLID FOUNDATION IN INDIA

Sensitive to the health-care needs of the economically poor sections of the population,
the Government of India is implementing a number of health-related schemes. Everyone
is getting better medical care, whether it is the more than 50 crore people included in the
socioeconomic caste census under the Ayushman Bharat scheme or the beneficiaries of
the Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), an organisation working under the
Ministry of Labour and Employment. ESIC provides social security benefits to its insured
workers and their family members, including comprehensive medical care. Premlata, an
ESIC beneficiary from Haryana's Panera Kalan village, received successful treatment at
the ESIC Medical College and Hospital in Faridabad.

remlata, the wife of ESIC-insured Sunil
PSharma, who worked as a security guard
at PVR Mall in Faridabad, had breast cancer.
Her illness had progressed to a critical stage.
Desperate and helpless after consulting
several doctors in Haryana, Premlata
sought treatment at ESIC Medical College
and Hospital in Faridabad. She was also
concerned about the cost of the treatment. A
team of cancer specialists from the hospital
began her treatment there. Premlata is now
living a healthy life following a mastectomy Premlata Devi,
and chemotherapy performed by the team of the wife of insured
Dr. Vivek Agarwal, Dr. Hemant Attri, Dr. Nisha, Haryana labourer
and Dr. Maitri. Her treatment was free of Sunil Sharma,
charge. In a tweet, Union Minister for Labour
and Employment and Environment, Forests, received free
and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav shared breast cancer
Premlata's successful treatment. He said that treatment
with the help of ESIC, Premlata Devi, wife of through ESIC.
Haryana's insured labourer Sunil Sharma, got
free treatment for breast cancer.
According to Dr. Bhupendra Singh, a senior protocols, according to a team of specialists
consultant at ESIC Hospital in Faridabad, from ESIC Medical College and Hospital in
Premlata's cancer was in an advanced stage. Faridabad. If a woman notices any lumps in her
The breast lump had spread to the anus. We breast area, she should have them screened
treated and removed all lumps. It is much immediately. The Ayushman Bharat Health and
better now than it was previously. Breast Wellness Centre offers breast cancer screening
cancer can be cured if detected early and services. One should see a doctor immediately
treated according to prescribed treatment after diagnosing the disease.

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