IREC Rule No.637: Report Of Infectious Diseases

637.  Report Of Infectious Diseases:-

(1)   Any railway servant who knows or has reason to suspect that either he himself or any member of his household is suffering from an infectious disease shall at once advise his superior official to this effect or, if working at the medical sectional headquarters, shall himself directly notify the Medical Officer.

(2)   The railway servant’s superior official notified under (1) above shall take necessary steps to notify immediately the Medical Officer in sectional charge. The message shall specify the suspected illness and the name, designation and address of the railway servant and whether his residence is within railway premises, or if otherwise approximately how far there from. If the disease suspected to have occurred in the household is a quarantinable disease, the railway servant concerned should, as early as feasible, be provisionally relieved from duty and debarred from mingling with other railway servants or persons.

Note: Regarding quarantine leave, see Rule 555.