section 30
Maintenance of isolation hospitals and wards.
The Kerala Public Health Act, 2023Health202383 sections12 chapters
Chapter 7 PREVENTION, NOTIFICATION AND TREATMENT OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND NOTIFIABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
Statutory text
- (1) The Local Public Health Officer shall with the assistance of Local Self Governments, if necessitated by the nature of the disease, take the following activities, namely:—
- (a) arrange hospitals, wards or other places for examining and treating persons having communicable disease or notifiable communicable disease;
- (b) provide and maintain conveyances for carrying persons having communicable disease or notifiable communicable disease;
- (c) arrange facilities for diagnosis and treatment of persons who are suffering or suspected to suffer from communicable disease or notifiable communicable disease; and
- (d) ensure conveyances, cloths, beds or other articles which had been exposed to infection are disinfected in proper manner.
- (2) Each healthcare institutions shall report to the Local Public Health Officer and District Public Health Officer,—
- (a) information relating to communicable disease or notifiable communicable disease in an area;
- (b) the details of diagonosis or services, etc. provided to persons suffering or suspected of suffering from any communicable disease or notifiable communicable disease; and
- (c) the treatment required and the details thereof for such persons;
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