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National Public Health Act of 2008.

País/Territorio
Sudán
Tipo de documento
Legislación
Fecha
2008
Fuente
FAO, FAOLEX
Materia
Medio ambiente gen., General
Palabra clave
Salud pública Plagas/enfermedades Higiene/procedimientos sanitarios Institución Investigación
Área geográphica
Africa, Naciones en desarrollo sin litoral, Países menos desarrollados, Africa del Norte y Cercano Oriente, Africa del Norte, Mar Rojo & Golfo de Adén, Sahel
Resumen

This Act consisting of 35 articles and II Annexes aims at protecting the health of the human being in Sudan. It establishes the Public Health Co-ordination National Council with the following main tasks (i) lay down the systems and standards of the national health system; (ii) approve the national health policies and strategies; (iii) propose health legislation in co-operation with the competent bodies; (iv) supervise medical researches conducted on human beings and verify their comp ability with the profession ethics, values, traditions and heritages; (v) lay-down the bases and control of monitoring epidemic diseases, and strive to prevent the spreading thereof, combat and eradicate the same, and organize procedure of quarantine; and (vi) organize the international relations in the field of health. The Act deals also with (i) communicable and epidemic diseases and their reporting; (ii) prohibition to travel or enter an intended destination for a patient of a communicable diseases or suspected of being infected with such diseases, save upon the approval of the competent health authorities; (iii) practice of a profession suspended; (iv) public places closed; (v) closure, or demolishing of buildings, and destruction of luggage and clothes; (vi) children vaccinations; (vii) medical service in emergent cases; (viii) right to free treatment (in emergent cases, children up to the age of five, pregnant women, and service of the basic health care); and (ix) prohibition of blood-transfusion, abortion and exhumation of tombs without following the procedures specified in arts. 31-33.

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