Hospital handover record
Treatment decisions belong to the clinicians treating her, not to a checklist. Alongside that, it’s worth keeping a plain record of the practical details — which hospital, which ward, who’s treating her, when she was admitted, and who the emergency contact is — since these are what every other step in the process ends up referencing.
- Record hospital, ward, the treating clinician, admission time, and an emergency contact.
- Keep medical, payment, insurance, and any PERKESO records in separate folders.
- Plan household coverage while she’s away, and let the clinician lead the discharge decision.
If it followed a workplace accident
A hospitalisation that follows a workplace accident falls under PERKESO’s Employment Injury Scheme, the same coverage described for a foreign domestic worker’s accident claim generally — a medical or sick-leave certificate is the core document, and the accident itself has its own reporting window of immediately or within 30 days of PERKESO being notified.
The claim-document question — which exact PERKESO form applies — is a separate, still-unresolved question covered on the dedicated claim-documents page; it isn’t specific to hospitalisation and doesn’t need repeating here.
If it’s an illness or a non-work injury
A hospitalisation that isn’t tied to a workplace accident falls under the contract’s own insurance clause instead, not PERKESO’s accident scheme. The JTKSM/ILO guide is clear that some insurance covering this is required, and the model contract commits the employer to it directly — what isn’t settled is which specifically named scheme (or whether generic coverage arranged independently) satisfies that obligation, a question covered in more depth on the dedicated insurance-requirement page rather than repeated here.
What matters practically in the moment is confirming with whoever arranged her insurance what the policy actually covers, rather than assuming PERKESO’s workplace-accident process applies to a non-work hospitalisation.
Keeping records straight
Because the paying route differs depending on how the hospitalisation happened, it’s worth keeping medical records, payment receipts, insurance paperwork, and any PERKESO correspondence in clearly separate folders from the outset rather than sorting them out afterward.
No official source found sets a specific deadline for notifying anyone of a hospitalisation itself, as distinct from the 30-day PERKESO window that applies specifically to reporting a workplace accident — don’t conflate the two.