Section 65

At every place of employment the employer shall provide for all workers such medical attention and treatment with medicines of good quality, first aid equipment and appliances for the transportation of sick or injured workers as may be prescribed.

Every employer shall take or cause to be taken, for treatment with as little delay as possible every worker injured or falling ill during the course of his employment and every resident worker and resident dependant on a place of employment requiring medical attention at a hospital or dispensary to the hospital or dispensary maintained for the workers at such place of employment or, if there is no such hospital or dispensary, to the nearest hospital or dispensary maintained by the Government or approved by the Commissioner and shall also provide any treatment necessary therefor.

The cost of maintenance and treatment of a worker and of his dependants residing on the place of employment in or at any hospital or dispensary to which the worker or his dependant is sent by the employer shall be borne or paid by the employer as long as the worker remains in his employment:

Provided that if the employer continues to pay to the worker wages or part wages amounting to not less than half his usual wages he may recover by deduction from the wages of such worker the cost of such maintenance in hospital at such rate as may be prescribed.

Labour

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Where any such worker or dependant has been admitted to a

Government hospital or dispensary, the cost of maintenance and treatment at such rate as may from time to time be prescribed and, in the event of the death of such worker or dependant in such hospital, any reasonable burial expenses incurred shall be recoverable from the employer at the suit of the

Medical Officer in Charge.

Burial of deceased workers or dependants.