(l) The contractor shall ensure provision of suitable and adequate medical facilities for outdoor treatment to the migrant workman free of cost for treatment of any ailment from which the migrant workman or any mem-ber of his family may suffer during his employment in the establishment or to meet any preventive measures against epidemic or any virus infection. Wherever any medicine is purchased by a migrant workman from market on the basis of the prescription issued by any doctor provided by the contractor or the principal employer, as the case may be, or any registered medical practitioner, the cost of such medicine shall be reimbursed by the contractor to the migrant workman concerned within a period of seven days from the date of presentation of the bill by the migrant workman.
(2) In the event of migrant workman or any of his family members suffering from any ailment requiring hospitalization during his employment in the establishment, the contractor shall promptly arrange for the hospitalization of the migrant workman or the concerned member of his family. The contractor shall bear entire expenses on treatment, hospital charges (including diet), if any, and travel expenses for the patient from the place of his/her residence to the hospital and back.
(3). Every contractor shall provide and maintain so as to be readily accessible during all working hours first aid boxes at the rate of not less than one box for one hundred and fifty workmen or part thereof.
(4) The first-aid box shall be distinctly marked with a Red Cross on a white ground and shall contain the following equipment, namely:—
(a) for the establishments in which number of migrant workmen employed does not exceed fifty, each first-aid box shall contain the following equipment:—
(i) 6 small sterilized dressings;
(ii) 3 medium sized sterilized dressings;
(iii) 3 large sized sterilized dressings;
(iv) 3 large sterilized burn dressings;
(v) 1 (30 ml.) bottle containing a two per cent alcoholic solution of iodine;
(vi) 1 (50 ml.) bottle containing salvolatile having the dose and mode of ad-ministration indicated on the lable;
(vii) 1 snake bite lancet;
(viii) 1 (30 gms.) bottle of potassium permanganate crystals;
(ix) 1 pair of scissors;
(x) 1 copy of the first-aid leaf let issued by the Director General Factory Advice Service and Labour Institutes, Government of India;
(xi) A bottle containing 100 tables (each of 5 grains) of aspirin;
(xii) Ointment for burns; and
(xiii) A bottle of suitable surgical antiseptic solution.
(b) for establishment in which the number of migrant workmen exceeds fifty, each first-aid box shall contain the following equipment;
(i) 12 small sterilized dressings;
(ii) 6 medium sized sterilized dressings;
(iii) 6 large sized sterilized dressings;
(iv) 6 large sized sterilized burn dressings;
(v) 6 (15 gms.) packets sterilized cotton wool;
(vi) 1 (60 ml.) bottle containing a two per cent alcoholic solution of iodine;
(vii) 1 (60 ml.) bottle containing salvolatile having the dose and mode of administration indicated on the lable;
(viii) 1 roll of adhesive plaster;
(ix) a snake bite lancet;
(x) 1 (30 gms.) bottle of potassium permanganate crystals;
(xi) 1 pair scissors;
(xii) 1 copy of the first-aid leaflet issued by the Director General, FactoryAdvisory Service and Labour institutes, Government of India:
(xiii) A bottle containing 100 tablets (each of 5 grains) of asprin;
(xiv) Ointment for burns; and
(xv) A bottle of a suitable surgical antiseptic solution;
(5) Adequate arrangements shall be made for immediate recoupment when necessary;
(6) Nothing except the contents mentioned in sub-rule (4) shall be kept in the first-aid box
(7) The first-aid box shall be incharge of a responsible person who shall always be readily available during the working hours of the establishment.
(8) The person incharge of the first-aid box shall be a person trained in first-aid treatment, in establishments where the number of migrant workmen is one hundred and fifty or more.
Haryana Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Rules, 1981