IREC Rule No.639: Verification Of Diseases When Railway Servant Resides Beyond The Beat Of The Medical Officer

639.  Verification Of Disease When A Railway Servant Resides Beyond The Prescribed Beat Of A Medical Officer:-

A railway servant, living beyond the prescribed beat of a Medical Officer who knows or suspects a member or members of his household to be suffering from an infectious disease, should endeavor to take immediate steps to procure the examination of the member or members of the household by a medical practitioner, registered or having registrable qualifications, and to procure a certificate from him stating the nature of the illness. The certificate in question should be directed under cover to the Medical Officer in sectional charge through the railway servant’s immediately responsible superior.