Question 72 · LEK · Issuing medical certificates
On a medical statement form confirming temporary incapacity for work or a stay in a stationary healthcare institution (ZUS ZLA form) A code means incapacity for work:
- A. caused by a disease which symptoms appear after the period longer than 14 days since the onset of the disease.
- B. which arose after a break shorter than 60 days and was caused by the same disease which caused it before the break.
- C. in pregnancy.
- D. caused by alcohol abuse.
- E. caused by tuberculosis.
Hint
Recall the letter codes A to E on the sick-leave certificate and which special circumstance each one flags for sickness benefit purposes.
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