The hospital which has sanctioned for the cine artist and technicians in south India by the central government will be coming at Trivandrum and Trivandrum has chosen for the center to build that hospital without any objection. The hospital will be functioned under the guidance and care of central government department of labor administration and the hospital will function as a Welfare office and referral unit as well for the cinema workers of South Indian film industry.
In this hospital the medical treatment for cine artist, technicians and for their family members is available and that too for free of cost. The medicines are also free from here and if they have to spend any money on some medical treatment that money will be given back to them by the central government by the reimbursement scheme as well. This hospital will also have the responsibility to serve the children of the cinema workers by giving them scholarships and insurance protection as well. These kind of hospital are only 3 in India and this will be the 4th one of this kind in India and the second one in South India. The 3 hospitals who started functioning before are placed at Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad.
The central labor welfare organization controls and manages the different service schemes and the funds for those service schemes for the cinema workers of Kerala. They are also working for the workers of beedi making and they are controlling their service schemes as well and an office of welfare commissioner is functioning at Kannur for managing the service schemes of beedi makers. But managing both the service schemes of beedi workers and cinema workers at the same office had created many practical difficulties and now this hospital can reduce that problems as it is going to work as a welfare office and referral unit as we said above.
The funds for the service schemes for cinema workers were collected by the central government after passing the bill at parliament. It is almost around 1. 30 crore rupees but only below 30 lakhs were used in the service schemes till now. This hospital had come as the result of the continuous requests given by people like BJP state President V.Muraleedharan and Gopan Chennithala,The state Convener of BJP Art and cultural wing named UNARV to the central labour minister Narendra Singh Tomar and also to the central health department.
