Blood Banks and control of communicable disease.

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

Statutory text

(1) The State Public Health Officer shall have the power to issue scientific guidelines for the maintanance of blood banks and to take steps to prevent the spread of any infection through blood transfusion, and to implement and execute the same through the District Public Health Officer or the Local Public Health Officer.
(2) Each medical practitioner and public and private healthcare institutions shall be responsible to follow the practices specified under sub-section (1) for managing blood bank, donation of blood and giving and taking of blood.
(3) Each medical practitioner and public or private healthcare institutions who fails to comply with the guidelines issued under sub-section (1) shall be liable to fine as specified in section 65.

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