29. Standard of dispensary or Hospital Services. –(1) The standard of dispensary service to be provided by owners of establishments or factories or contractors who are engaged in the manufacture of beedis for the purpose of getting the grant-in-aid envisaged in Cl. (c) of sub-section (1) of Sec. 4 of the Act shall be as specified in Sch. II, hereinafter in the rule and in rules 30 and 31 referred to as the prescribed standard. (2) There shall be maintained an independent dispensary or hospital at the site of each establishment or factory engaged in the manufacture of bee & according to the prescribed standard: Provided that a common main dispensary may be maintained for several establishments or factory engaged in the manufacture of beedi with branch dispensaries attached to each establishment or factory engaged in the manufacture of beedi subject to the following conditions, namely: (i) The common main dispensary shall maintain the standards prescribed for the aggregate number of workers of all the establishments or factories engaged in the manufacture of beedis served by it or the standard maintained by it during the year 1975, whichever is higher: (ii) Every branch dispensary shall have a qualified doctor and a qualified pharmacist (compounder); (iii) The common main dispensary shall be so situated that none of the establishment or factory engaged in the manufacture of beedis served by it is more than fifteen kilometers away from it; and (iv) The common main dispensary shall maintain an ambulance van for taking serious cases of injury and sickness from the branch dispensaries to the common main dispensary. (3) The Commissioner may, if he is satisfied that any dispensary or hospital is being efficiently run and served the purpose for which it is established, waive any of the requirements specified in the prescribed standard: Provided that no such dispensary or hospital shall contain any room other than a store room which is less than four metres by three metres in area: Provided further that a Registered Medical Practitioner may be appointed to be in-charge of a dispensary, catering to more than 250 workers, only if he has ten years experience as medical officer in independent charge of a dispensary.
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