This document discusses sickness and fitness certificates provided by doctors. Sickness certificates are needed in schools, workplaces, for insurance purposes, and in court to excuse absences. They certify a patient's illness and time needed to recover. Fitness certificates are required for jobs, education, travel, and other activities, stating a person is medically able. The certificates must be issued by registered doctors after examination. Providing false certificates is illegal and risks penalties or license removal for physicians. Doctors may also be compelled to testify about certificates in legal disputes.

1. Sickness & Fitness Certificate
Dr Ashutosh Potdar

2. Sickness Certificate - need
1. In schools and colleges to authenticate the
sickness of the students.
2. In various organizations both private and
government, to confirm the reason for absence
from work.
3. For various insurance purposes, to decide the
amount of claims.

3. Sickness Certificate - need
4. To excuse the attendance of the witness before a
court of trial.
5. For sickness benefit as per the Employees State
Insurance Act.

4. Sickness Certificate
I, Dr.______________________ after careful examination of the case do herby
certify that Smt/Sri/Kum__________________aged ______sex________ from
(address)_______________________________is suffering from
_________________________and I consider that a period of absence from duty for
__________________ Days/Months with effect from ______________is absolutely
necessary for the restoration of his/her health.
Identification marks
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2.
Place: Medical Officer/ Treating Doctor
Date: Reg.No.
Seal

5. Certificate of fitness to return to Duty
I, Dr.___________________ do hereby certify that I have carefully
examined Smt/Sri/Kum __________________ aged ______sex________ from
(address)_______________________________ and find that he/she has recovered
from his/her illness and is now fit to resume duties from___________________ I
have verified the previous certificate on which leave was granted and have
taken consideration in arriving this decision.
Identification marks
1.
2.
Place: Medical Officer/
Treating Doctor
Date: Reg. No:
Sign of the Patient Seal

6. Fitness Certificate
 It is a document testifying to the state of health of
an individual and relates to his capacity to perform
certain duties imposed upon him either by law or
his employers.

7. Fitness Certificate - need
 Taking up a job or joining new workplace
 Entering an educational institution
 Making a Testament
 Police arrest
 Travelling from pandemic area to non-pandemic

8. Medical fitness Certificate
I, Dr.___________________ , hereby certify that I have
carefully examined undersighned, Smt/Sri/Kum __________________
aged yrs, resident of and find that he/she is not suffering
from any physical or mental illness which may interfere with his or
her studies including active outdoor activities required for a
professional.
Identification marks
1.
2.
Place: Medical Officer/
Treating Doctor
Date: Reg. No:
Sign of the Patient Seal

9. Points to be remembered
 Mention your name, qualification and address to give
authority to a certificate.
 State such facts as those within your personal
knowledge.
 For the certificate to be valid, the doctor should be a
registered medical practitioner.
 If the certificate is untrue, misleading and improper, it is
both unethical and illegal.

10. Points to be remembered
 Requisition from the Police is not needed except
for arresting accused.
 Medical certificates should be issued by the doctor
only after examining the concerned.

11. Liabilities
1. Issuing of a false certificate is not only ethically
wrong but also attracts the provisions of Indian
Penal Code.
2.Sec. 197 IPC: Whoever issues or signs any
certificate relating to any fact knowing or believing
that such certificate is false in any material point,
shall be punished in the same manner as if, he
gave ‘false evidence’.

12. Liabilities
 Sec. 193 IPC: Punishment for false evidence.
 Whoever intentionally gives false evidence in any of a
judicial proceeding, or fabricates false evidence for the
purpose of being used in any stage of a judicial proceeding,
shall be punished with imprisonment of either description
for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also
be liable to fine;
 and whoever intentionally gives or fabricates false evidence
in any other case, shall be punished with imprisonment of
either description for a term which may extend to three
years, and shall also be liable to fine.

13. Liabilities
3. Issuing of false certificate by a RMP may lead to
penal erasure of the name of the practitioner from
the medical register.
4. Physician may be required to testify in proceedings
involving disputes between an employer and the
employee (i.e. the physician’s patient) based on the
sickness/ fitness certificate provided.

14. Liabilities
5. Physicians can be summoned as witnesses in legal
proceedings under oath, providing their clinical notes
on a patient, in such proceedings where they may be
examined and cross-examined by legal counsel.
6. If the patient suffers any damages due to inclusion of
any untrue, incorrect, misleading information in the
sickness/ fitness certificate by the RMP the patient
has the right to avail legal remedies by filing a civil
suit.

15. Medical Certificate
Migrant worker/pilgrim/tourist/student/other
person………………………………………..has been screened by a registered
medical practitioner for Covid-19. He/she is found asymptomatic
for fever, cough, cold, throat pain, pneumonia. It is certified that
there are no signs & symptoms and he/she is fit to travel.
Place: Medical Officer/ Treating
Doctor
Date: Reg. No:
Sign of the Patient Seal

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