Section 21 in The Kandla Port Trust Employees (Medical Attendance) Regulations, 2000
21. Extra corporeal stone disintegration by ultrasonic shock, waves, etc.
(ii)Artificial Appliances - Reimbursement if certified as essential by concerned specialists of Port Trust/ government hospital or recognised hospital on a reference by Board's CMO, admissible in the following cases:(a)Procurement/ Adjustment/ Repair of artificial orthopaedic appliances.(b)Procurement/ Adjustment/ Repair of Artificial Hearing Aid.(c)Cost of Heart Pace Maker and Replacement of Pulse Generator.(d)Replacement of diseased Heart valves, artificial Electronic Latynx.(e)Cost of knee and hip implants.Note:- (a) Where under the advice of the concerned specialists, the artificial appliance once purchased is to be repaired/ adjusted, it has to be ensured that the cost of repairs/ adjustments of appliances is less than the cost of replacement thereof.(b)reimbursement of cost of artificial appliances prescribed in the case of patients should be allowed only after three years, for a maximum limit of three times.(c)the list of artificial appliances whose cost would be reimbursable to the employees and the entitled members of their families will be as per provisions of CS(MA) Rules.(iii)CT Scan charges reimbursable if undertaken on the advice of specialist of Port Trust/ Government hospital and recognised hospital only on a reference by Board's CMO.(iv)Surgical/Clinical charges incurred for Kidney donor for employee himself/ herself or to an eligible member of his/ her family as defined in these regulations.(v)Inter-Ocular Lens Implantation. - (a) Actual cost of implantation and treatment there to reimbursable if undertaken at Government hospital; if undertaken at private recognised hospitals, the actual cost of Rs. 6,500/- whichever is less. Cost of Spectacles, if any, in such cases will not be admissible for reimbursement.(b)For conventional cataract operation, cost of spectacles for correction of distant/ near vision limited to Rs. 200/-. reimbursable. Replacement of spectacles if advised by Ophthamologist of Port Trust once in every three years.(c)Admissible for members of family also.
