Medical Services And Institutions

Cap. 39 · Revised Edition 2020 · 69 sections

s. 1Short title
s. 2Interpretation
s. 3Constitution of Medical Service
s. 4Appointment of medical officers
s. 5Subordinates subject to relevant Public Service Regulations
s. 6Employment of subordinates
s. 7Salaries
s. 8Duties
s. 9Director of Health Services to have general control
s. 10Officers and subordinates to act under his directions
s. 11Medical officer-who deemed
s. 12Medical district-how created
s. 13Assignment of medical district to a medical officer
s. 14Medical charge of medical institutions
s. 15Medical subordinates-their duties
s. 16Public vaccinators
s. 17Members of medical service not to keep a chemist’s shop
s. 18Time of members of the medical service entirely at disposal of Government
s. 19Visitors ex officio
s. 20Visitors by appointment
s. 21Power of visitors
s. 22Visiting committee
s. 23Hospitals-their object
s. 24Admission
s. 25Medical officer in charge to have discretion in granting admissions
s. 26Admission in cases of urgency
s. 27Dispensaries-their object
s. 28Gratuitous treatment-to whom granted
s. 29Medical officers to order medicines, etc
s. 30Duties of medical officer in places where there is no hospital or dispensary
s. 31The Mental Hospital
s. 32Charge of the Mental Hospital
s. 33Inquiry as to state of person’s mind
s. 34Proceedings for the certification of persons believed to be of un- sound mind
s. 35Adjudication of unsoundness of mind and committal to Mental Hospital
s. 36Duty of certain persons to inform magistrate of ill-treatment or neglect of person of unsound mind
s. 37Patient in hospital becoming of unsound mind
s. 38Removal of criminals from prison to Mental Hospital
s. 39Person under sentence of death believed to be of unsound mind
s. 40Admission by Director of Health Services in urgent cases
s. 41Committal of persons of unsound mind considered dangerous
s. 42Admission of voluntary patients
s. 43Persons of unsound mind who are not paupers, admitted on payment
s. 44Admission of convicted persons for observation
s. 45Admission of accused persons for observation
s. 46Evidence of state of mind
s. 47Minister to order examination by medical practitioner
s. 48Discharge of patient on recovery
s. 49Absence of person of unsound mind from the Mental Hospital on trial
s. 50Transfer of person of unsound mind from Mental Hospital to some other place
s. 51Recapture of escaped person of unsound mind
s. 52Inquiry into means of person of unsound mind in the Mental Hospital
s. 53Application of section 33(2)
s. 54Funeral expenses of persons of unsound mind, etc
s. 55Conveyance of persons of unsound mind to Mental Hospital
s. 56Inquiry into death of persons of unsound mind in the Mental Hospital
s. 57Power to make regulations
s. 58Unlawful entry into Mental Hospital
s. 59Indecency to females
s. 60Penalty for rescuing escaped inmate, etc
s. 61Assaulting inmate or obstructing officer, etc
s. 62Penalty for issuing false certificate, etc
s. 63Fraudulent certificate of mental condition
s. 64Selling articles to inmates of Mental Hospital
s. 65Penalty for false evidence
s. 66Regulations
s. 67Relatives of inmate made liable for expenses
s. 68Dues recoverable summarily
s. 69Remission of dues wholly or in part