Medical facilities are another area of concern in an area so remote. NMDC has tried to ensure quality medical care to its employees. Combined together, the two hospitals in Bacheli (in collaboration with Apollo Hospitals of Hyderabad) and Kirandul have a total capacity of just 200 beds and 41 doctors, but the mass they cater to is much larger. The hospital in Bacheli alone has treated as many as 101,264 patients since the beginning of 2009. And this excludes the 5,000 odd patients that they have treated through their mobile hospital facility that started in June this year. But what is more intriguing about these hospitals is that they not only provide free treatment, medicines and food to NMDC employees, but also extend the same benefits to the tribal people of nearby villages. Even the mobile facility is entirely dedicated to villagers of the surrounding area who can not come to the hospitals. These hospitals do lack state-of-the-art facilities, but NMDC has ensured that they are prepared for any kind of emergency with a blood bank, semi-sophisticated ICU and modern equipment. Ravi Sekhar Rao, Chief Administrator of NMDC-Apollo Hospital in Bacheli explains, “We don’t have any good hospital in a radius of 400 kms. So, in case of emergency, patients either have to go to Raipur or Hyderabad. That’s why we always keep ourselves prepared with all necessary facilities.” Even though NMDC has ambulances to send patients to Raipur and Hyderabad if required, it is obviously a situation that they would dread; considering the distance.
Early next morning, while walking on the well cleaned up roads of the townships and enjoying the parks and the greenery, I come across an area with a number of demolished houses. When I ask the shop owner at the end of the colony, he tells me that the company got these houses demolished a few months ago. Later in the day, while talking to a newly employed executive trainee, I also come to know that demolition of these houses (and hiring of trainees recently) has now given rise to a housing crisis in these townships and many employees are at present accommodated on a sharing basis. However, while conversing with Rakesh Ranjan, Manager (Personnel) and Estate Officer, Kirandul, I get to know that it’s just a temporary phase. The 300-odd quarters demolished were all temporary old quarters and the company now intends to build new multi-storied houses to replace those. New constructions have already started, but our trainee friend complains that the process is quite slow.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2009
Early next morning, while walking on the well cleaned up roads of the townships and enjoying the parks and the greenery, I come across an area with a number of demolished houses. When I ask the shop owner at the end of the colony, he tells me that the company got these houses demolished a few months ago. Later in the day, while talking to a newly employed executive trainee, I also come to know that demolition of these houses (and hiring of trainees recently) has now given rise to a housing crisis in these townships and many employees are at present accommodated on a sharing basis. However, while conversing with Rakesh Ranjan, Manager (Personnel) and Estate Officer, Kirandul, I get to know that it’s just a temporary phase. The 300-odd quarters demolished were all temporary old quarters and the company now intends to build new multi-storied houses to replace those. New constructions have already started, but our trainee friend complains that the process is quite slow.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2009
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