4/29/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly xxxx 2. If the injury or illness requires medical attention and/or dental treatment in a foreign port, the employer shall be liable for the full cost of such medical, serious dental, surgical and hospital treatment as well as board and lodging until the seafarer is declared fit to work or to be repatriated. However, if after repatriation, the seafarer still requires medical attention arising from said injury or illness, he shall be so provided at cost to the employer until such time he is declared fit or the degree of his disability has been established by the companydesignated physician. 3. Upon sign-off from the vessel for medical treatment, the seafarer is entitled to sickness allowance equivalent to his basic wage until he is declared fit to work or the degree of permanent disability has been assessed by the company-designated physician but in no case shall this period exceed one hundred twenty (120) days. For this purpose, the seafarer shall submit himself to a post-employment medical examination by a company-designated physician within three working days upon his return except when he is physically incapacitated to do so, in which case, a written notice to the agency within the same period is deemed as compliance. Failure of the seafarer to comply with the mandatory reporting requirement shall result in his forfeiture of the right to claim the above benefits. x x x x. [21] G.R. No. 142049, January 30, 2001, 350 SCRA 629. [22] G.R. No. 182430, December 4, 2009, 607 SCRA 734. [23] Standard Terms and Conditions Governing the Employment of Filipino Seafarers On-Board Ocean-Going Vessels. [24] Abante v. KJGS Fleet Management Manila, supra note 22, at 739-740. [25] G.R. No. 165156, April 2, 2007, 520 SCRA 109. [26] Supra note 21. [27] Seagull Maritime Corporation v. Dee, supra note 25, at 117-118. [28] G.R. No. 161416, June 13, 2008, 554 SCRA 446. [29] Maunlad Transport, Inc. v. Manigo, Jr., supra, at 459. (Emphasis in the original). [30] G.R. No. 173951, April 16, 2012, 669 SCRA 481. elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/55611 10/11