CAP. 226 [Rev. 2012] Employment [Subsidiary] EMPLOYMENT (MEDICAL TREATMENT) RULES, 1977 [L.N. 157/1977.] 1. Citation These Rules may be cited as the Employment (Medical Treatment) Rules, 1977. 2. Interpretation and expenses of medical treatment (1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires, “medical treatment” means treatment by a registered or licensed medical practitioner, treatment at a hospital, clinic, health centre, medical aid centre or in cases of minor illness or injury treatment by any other skilled or semi-skilled person, and in each case includes the provision of drugs, dressings and medical supplies as may be necessary. (2) Such medical treatment shall be provided at the expense of the employer, unless— (a) the illness or injury was contracted during any period when the employee was absent from his employment without lawful cause or excuse; or (b) the illness or injury is proved to have been self inflicted. 3. Reports of illness, etc. An employer shall take reasonable steps to ensure that every case of illness or injury of any employee occurring on his property is brought to his notice, by displaying on a notice board the necessity to report such illness or injury. 4. Provision of medical treatment (1) Where there is reasonable cause to believe that any employee is suffering from illness or injury, whether contracted as a result of the employee’s work or not, every employer shall, with the consent of the employee, cause to be provided to such employee medical treatment. (2) The treatment provided under sub-paragraph (1) of this rule shall be at the cost of the employer unless provided free by the Government. 5. Medicines, etc. to be available at place of work Every employer shall always have readily available at the place of work a sufficient quantity of asprin, quinine (or some other recognized medicine for the treatment of malaria) epsom salts and a solution of a recognized antiseptic. 6. First-aid kits Every employer shall keep, or cause to be kept readily available at all times at the place of work, at least one first-aid kit. 7. Dresser or nurse Every employer who employs not less than one hundred employees in any one place shall, where no public hospital or dispensary facilities are readily available near the place of employment, appoint a medical dresser or nurse, or other suitable person to supervise the treatment and care of the sick. [Issue 1] 58