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following conditions:
(a) the company-designated physician failed to issue a declaration as to his
fitness to engage in sea duty or disability even after the lapse of the 120day period and there is no indication that further medical treatment would
address his temporary total disability, hence, justify an extension of the
period to 240 days;
(b) 240 days had lapsed without any certification being issued by the
company-designated physician;
(c) the company-designated physician declared that he is fit for sea duty
within the 120-day or 240-day period, as the case may be, but his physician
of choice and the doctor chosen under Section 20-B(3) of the POEA-SEC are
of a contrary opinion;
(d) the company-designated physician acknowledged that he is partially
permanently disabled but other doctors who he consulted, on his own and
jointly with his employer, believed that his disability is not only permanent
but total as well;
(e) the company-designated physician recognized that he is totally and
permanently disabled but there is a dispute on the disability grading;
(f) the company-designated physician determined that his medical condition
is not compensable or work-related under the POEA-SEC but his doctor-ofchoice and the third doctor selected under Section 20-B(3) of the POEA-SEC
found otherwise and declared him unfit to work;
(g) the company-designated physician declared him totally and permanently
disabled but the employer refuses to pay him the corresponding benefits;
and
(h) the company-designated physician declared him partially and
permanently disabled within the 120-day or 240-day period but he remains
incapacitated to perform his usual sea duties after the lapse of the said
periods.[29]
Upon respondent's repatriation on February 6, 2010, he received extensive medical
attention from the company-designated physicians. He was endorsed to a urological
surgeon. Dr. Gatchalian, who recommended and performed surgery on him on March
26, 2010 to address and treat his varicocoele. After surgery, his condition was
continually monitored as he still complained of scrotal and groin pains.[30] He
thereafter underwent Inguinoscrotal Ultrasound on May 28, 2010 and July 16, 2010.[31]
He was subjected to further physical and laboratory exams and was recommended by
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