IREC Rule No.642: Treatment For Quarantine

642.  Treatment for quarantine:-

When for lack of a railway infectious disease hospital or of isolation wards in a railway hospital or of accommodation in a railway hospital, it is declared by a Medical Officer, not below the rank of Divisional Medical Officer, to be necessary in the interests of the railway that the cases of infectious diseases occurring among the members of the family a servant residing in a railway colony should be removed to a civil hospital for treatment the charges which may ordinarily be leviable by the civil hospital in  such cases may be met from railway revenues.

Medical attendance and treatment facilities may be given to family members of the consumer co-operative societies and to the staff and to the members of their families of the co-operative credit societies and Banks on per capita basis.  The per capita charge should be calculated on the basis of total expenditure on the medical services (excluding health services) incurred on Railway employees in India during the preceding financial year.