Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2023, published 112nd ILC session (2024)

Workmen's Compensation (Accidents) Convention, 1925 (No. 17) - Sierra Leone (Ratification: 1961)

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Article 9. Medical, surgical, and pharmaceutical costs. The Committee takes note of the information provided in the Government’s report that according with section 79(1)(c) of the Employment Act 2023, health allowances are provided or reimbursed to workers and their dependents where necessary and shall not exceed two months of the workers’ annual basic salary. In addition, the Government indicates that healthcare services are provided by Government funded hospitals at low costs so that medical allowances are sufficient to complement benefits provided by employers. The Committee recalls that Article 9 of the Convention establishes that the cost of health care provided in case of work-related accidents must be borne by the employer, accident insurance institutions or sickness or disability insurance institutions. The Committee requests the Government to explain whether, in the event of work-related accidents, the State assumes responsibility for medical care costs not borne by employers that exceed the medical allowance paid to workers, including prosthetic limbs and pharmaceutical costs.