If the conditions of service of any employee so allow, an employer may discharge or reduce on due notice an employee —
(i) who has been in receipt of disablement benefit for tempo-rary disablement, after he has been in receipt of such benefit for a continuous period of six months or more ;
(ii) who has been under medical treatment for sickness 1 [***] or has been absent from work as a result of illness duly certified in accordance with these regulations to arise out of the pregnancy or confinement rendering the employee unfit for work, after the employee has been under such treatment or has been absent from work for a continuous period of six months or more ;
2 [(iii) who has been under medical treatment for any of the following diseases duly certified in accordance with these regulations, after the employee has been under such treatment for a continuous period of 18 months or more, notwithstanding provisions of clauses (i) and (ii) :
— 3 [I. INFECTITIOUS DISEASES
1. Tuberculosis
2. Leprosy
3. Chronic Empyema
4. Bronchiatesis
5. Intersitial Lung Disease
6. A.I.D.S.
II. NEOPLASMS
7. Malignant Diseases III. ENDOCRINE NUTRITIONAL AND METABOLIC DISORDERS
8. Diabetes Mellitus with proliferative retinopathy/diabetic foot/nephropathy.
IV. DISORDERS OF NERVOUS SYSTEM
9. Monoplegia
10. Hemiplegia
11. Paraplegia
12. Hemiparesis
13. Intracranial Space Occupying Lesion
14. Parkinson’s disease
15. Spinal Cord Compression
16. Myaesthenia Gravis/Neuromuscular Dystrophies V. DISEASES OF EYE
17. Immature Cataract with vision 6/60 or less
18. Detachment of Retina
19. Glaucoma VI. DISEASES OF CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
20. Coronary Artery Disease
(a) Unstable Angina
(b) Myocardial infarction with ejection less than 45%
21. Congestive Heart Failure Left Right
22. Cardiac Valvular Diseases with Failure/complications
23. Cardiomyopathies
24. Heart Disease with Surgical intervention along with complications.
VII. CHEST DISEASES
25. Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (COPD) with congestive heart failure (Cor Pulmonale) VIII. DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
26. Cirrhosis of liver with ascities/chronic active hepatitis IX. ORTHOPAEDIC DISEASES
27. Dislocation of vertebra/prolapse of intervertabral disc.
28. Non union or delayed union of fracture
29. Post Traumatic Surgical amputation of lower extremity
30. Compound fracture with chronic Osteomyelitis.
X. PSYCHOSES
31. Sub groups under this are listed for clarification
(a) Schizophrenia
(b) Endogeneous depression
(c) Manic Depressive psychosis (MDF)
(d) Dementia XI. OTHERS
32. More than 20% burns with infection/complication
33. Chronic Renal Failure
34. Reynaud’s diseases/Burger’s disease.