Where are out-patient services provided?
Out-door medical care is provided at State Insurance Dispensaries or Mobile Dispensaries manned by full-time doctors (‘Service’ system) or at the private clinics of Insurance Medical Practitioners (‘Panel” system). The scope of medical services also includes simple ante-natal and post-natal care for women, family welfare planning services and immunization against the common infectious diseases. The Scheme provides at the sole cost of the Corporation, artificial limbs to insured persons who lose their limbs due to employment injury or in certain circumstances otherwise also, dentures, spectacles arid hearing-aids where the loss of teeth, impairment of eye-sight or hearing respectively is due to employment injury.
