Sickness Benefit
Certification

An Insured Person claiming sickness benefit  has normally to obtain medical certificates from an Insurance Medical Officer and submit them to the concerned Branch Office.  The certificate should be in the appropriate form covering the period for which he desires to claim sickness benefit. 

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In any area where arrangements for medical benefit under the ESI Act have not been made or otherwise if in its opinion the circumstances of a particular case so justify, the Corporation may accept any other evidence of sickness or temporary disablement in the form of a certificate issued by the medical officer of the State Government, local body or other medical institution, or a certificate issued by any Registered Medical Practitioner.