RAILWAY SERVANTS (PASS) RULES,1986 (1993 EDITION)
SCHEDULE - VII
SPECIAL PASSES
PASSES ON MEDICAL GROUNDS
Category : Group A, B, C, & D [Serving and Retired]** ACS No. 15
Conditions of entitlement : Issued for journey from station nearest to the residence of a Railway servant where railway medical facilities for treatment of the railway servant or his family members are not available to a station where railway dispensary or hospital, or sanatorium with the required facilities for treatment is
located.
Entitlement/Facilities :
1. Pass will ordinarily be issued for the Class of entitlement of the
railway servant on privilege account.
2-A A higher class of pass may be issued at the discretion of the
General Manager of the Railway Administration/Unit, or Secretary, Railway Board,
for outward journey only to: -
- a railway servant or his family members suffering from Tuberculosis or
cancer for travelling with one family member or dependent relative or a
companion when no family member or dependent relative is included, on the
recommendation of the Chief Medical Officer of the Railway concerned. No
attendant will be included.
- a railway servant or his family member or dependent relative when the
railway servant himself has arranged a bed in a sanatorium provided the
Divisional Medical Officer of the Railway certifies that the Railway
Administration could not arrange a bed and that treatment in that sanatorium/
hospital is necessary.
- a railway servant or his family member or dependant relative suffering from
Tuberculosis or cancer for travel from one sanatorium to another for further
treatment operation etc. provided that the concerned medical authorities certify
that this is necessary and provided further that such recommendation of
Sanatorium/ hospital authorities is accepted by the Chief Medical Officer of the
Railway. A family member or dependent relative may also be included if
necessary.
2-B The grant of higher class passes and attendant on medical
grounds shall be regulated as under :-
- If the Medical Officer considers that patient should be accompanied by an
attendant during travel for his journey to an outside station for treatment the
inclusion of the attendant in the Railway pass shall be regulated as under :-
- One attendant may be allowed if the patient is bed ridden and is unable to
sit up, on the recommendation of the Medical Officer incharge of the
hospital/health units/polyclinic.
- {If the patient is in big plaster, or physically
handicapped or unconscious or paralysed or mentally retarded, where one
attendant cannot lift the patient, two attendants in the same class may be
provided on the express recommendation of the Medical Officer.} ACS
No. 43
If the patient is in big plaster where one attendant
cannot lift the patient, two attendants in the same class on the recommendation
of the Medical Officer may be provided.
- In case where the patient is in coma/shock/ stupor due to any cause such as
head injury etc. regardless of whether he is suffering from T.B./cancer for
which higher class pass is admissible, a higher class pass alongwith an
attendant in the same class may be given on the recommendation of the Medical
Officer.
Provided that the facility of an attendant shall be available only when no
other family member is accompanying the patient. Such passes where an attendant
has been allowed should, therefore be restricted to the patient and the
attendants only.
Provided further that higher class passes shall be allowed only for outward
journey while proceeding for treatment to an outside station. After the patient
recovers, the return journey pass shall be issued for the class to which the
patient is entitled. Where an attendant was allowed to accompany the patient,
in a higher class he shall be issued second class pass for the return
journey.
3. (i) In case, higher class pass to the Railway employee for his
return journey has also been considered necessary, specific recommendation of
the CMO of the Railway in whose Jurisdiction the hospital is located shall be
necessary
(ii) Pass for the return journey valid for the entitled class or
a higher class, as the case may be, shall be issued on the recommendation of the
CMO by the Railway in whose jurisdiction the hospital is located. To facilitate
issue of return journey passes by that Railway a stamped endorsement authorising
that Railways to issue pass may be made on the outward journey pass.
4. In cases where a railway servant falls seriously ill outside
the Zonal Railway on which he is working and is referred to a hospital located
on another station for specialised treatment by the Railway Medical Officer, he
may be given a Special Pass available from that place to the location of the
hospital/dispensary to which he has been referred and back to the same place.
The concerned Medical Officer recommending the grant of the pass shall report
the facts of the case to the controlling CMO of the employee indicating clearly
reasons that necessitated treatment at an out side station in support of his
recommendation for issue of Special Pass.
The Medical Officer recommending the issue of pass on
medical grounds shall submit a monthly statement to the concerned CMO indicating
the circumstances of each case and the reasons for recommending such passes. CMO
should ensure that the recommendations of the Medical Officers for issue of
passes were in accordance with the guidelines of these orders.
Note: The above said power of General Manager of the Railway/Unit or
Secretary, Railway Board shall not be relegated.
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