Chapter III
Functions and Duties of the Health Officer
5. When a Principal
Epidemic Disease or a Notifiable Disease occurs
in an area to which Health Officer is assigned,
he shall perform the following duties:-
(a) inspection of the infected
house, food processing industry, factory, place
of work, markets and shops, other necessary houses.
premises, location, buildings and causing sanitation
and other necessary measures to he carried out;
(b) causing disinfection to he
carried out in the locations mentioned in sub-section
(a) and of articles, clothes. utensils and other
household goods in such locations;
(c) causing disinfection to be
carried out in trains, motor vehicles, aircrafts,
vessels and other vehicles;
(d) causing chlorination of wells
and ponds to be carried out;
(e) causing destruction of the
vector;
(f) causing necessary measures
to be carried out against transmission of disease
from Principal Epidemic Disease infected corpse;
(g) submitting and reporting
the situation concerning the Principal Epidemic
Disease to the relevant authorized body or person
to enable the issue of the restrictive or prohibitive
order under section 14;
(h) directing the ban or destruction
of food which are unfit for human consumption;
(i) directing the destruction
of or ban on the sale of food causing or suspected
of causing the spread of a Principal Epidemic
Disease or the closure of the factory, mill, place
of work, market or shop producing or selling such
food;
(j) inspection of water supply
works and laundry services and directing closure
of such places if proved to be a source of transmission.
6. The Health
Officer may assign the duties which he is to perform
or which he is authorized to perform to a Health
Personnel.
7. The Health
Officer shall obtain the cooperation of suitable
persons from the Government departments and other
organizations of the relevant area in performing
duties mentioned in section 5.
Chapter IV
Environmental Sanitation
8. For prevention
of the outbreak of Communicable Disease and effective
control of Communicable Disease when it occurs,
the public shall, under the supervision an guidance
of the Health Officer of the relevant area, undertake
the responsibility carrying out the following environmental
sanitation measures:
(a) in-door, out-door sanitation
or inside the fence, outside the fence sanitation;
(b) well, ponds and drainage
sanitation;
(c) proper disposal of refuse
and destruction there of by fire:
(d) construction and use of sanitary
latrines;
(e) other necessary environmenta1
sanitation measures.
Chapter V
Reporting Communicable Disease
9. The head of
the household or any member of the household shall
report immediately to the nearest health department
or hospital when any of the following events occurs:-
(a) rat fall
(b) outbreak of a Principal Epidemic
Disease;
(c) outbreak of a Notifiable
Disease.
10. Traditional
medicine practitioners, health assistants and doctors
shall report immediately to the nearest health department
or hospital if a case of Principal Epidemic Disease
or Notifiable Disease if found during practice.
Chapter VI
Measures taken in respect of an outbreak of
Principal Epidemic Disease
11. In order to
prevent and control the spread of a Principal Epidemic
Disease, the Health Officer may undertake the following
measures:-
(a) investigation of a patient
or any other person required:
(b) medical examination;
(c) causing laboratory investigation
of stool, urine, sputum and blood samples to he
carried out:
(d) causing investigation by
injection to he carried out;
(e) carrying out other necessary
investigations.
