What is Extended Sickness Benefit?
Extended Sickness Benefit is a Cash Benefit paid for prolonged illness due to any of the 34 specified diseases as mentioned below. Tuberculosis Leprosy Chronic Empyema Bronchiectasis Interstitial Lung disease AIDS Malignant Diseases Diabetes Mellitus-with proliferative retinopathy/diabetic footl nephropathy. Monoplegia Hemiplegia Paraplegia Hemiparesis Intracranial space occupying lesion Spinal Cord Compression Parkinson’s disease Myasthenia Gravis/Neuromuscular Dystrophies Immature Cataract with vision 6/60 or less Detachment of Retina Glaucoma Coronary Artery Diseases Congestive Heart Failure-Left, Right Cardiac valvular Diseases with failure/complications Cardiomyopathies Heat disease with surgical intervention along with complications Chronic Obstructive Long diseases .(COPD) with congestive’ heart failure (CorPulmonale), Cirrhosis of liver with ascitis/chronic active hepatitis, (“CAH”) Dislocation of vertebra/prolapse of intervertebral disc Non union or delayed union of fracture P
