Medical practitioners, to give information of communicable disease or notifiable communicable disease and to follow proposed treatment criteria.

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Chapter 7 PREVENTION, NOTIFICATION AND TREATMENT OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND NOTIFIABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

Statutory text

(1) Each medical practitioner in any system of medicine, during her practice come to know that there exists any communicable disease or notifiable communicable disease in any private or public dwelling places, or come to know that death occured due to it or has reason to believe it shall, unless the same is not informed earlier, give information within a maximum of twenty four hours to the Local Public Health Officer or any other authorities notified by the Government in this behalf.
(2) Where the Government notifies a commucable disease as per section 28 and directs the mode of management to be followed exclusively for that disease, including collection of specimen, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, such mode of management and procedures shall be followed by all the registered medical practitioners and healthcare institutions, who treat the patients having the symptoms of such disease.
(3) Any medical practitioner and healthcare institutions who contravenes the provisions under sub-section (1) and (2) shall be liable to fine specified in section 65.

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