Health Legislation

The Resolution approved the Treaty Establishing the African Medicines Agency, adopted in February 2019 by the 32nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union, held in Addis Ababa – Ethiopia. 

This decree regulates the exercise of hospital pharmaceutical activity in the health structures of the National Health Service. It covers all health structures of the National Health Service that carry out this activity, namely central hospitals and regional hospitals. Its purpose is to organize, improve, optimize and standardize hospital pharmaceutical services in the National Health Service.

The Resolution creates Commission of the Cape Verde Order of Order of Nurses of Cape Verde and extinguished the Committee of the Cape Verde Order of Nurses, created by Resolution No. 126/2019. 

The Law makes the first amendment to the Law no. 41/VI/2004, of April 5, which establishes the foundations of the National Health Service.

The decree approves the plan of positions, careers and salaries for the staff that make up the medical career. The system applies to all doctors in the National Health Service who are part of the career. The aim of establishing a medical career is to guarantee and organize the exercise of medical activity in the National Health Service. It is also a particular objective of the medical career to encourage and reward scientific research and experimentation in the field of medicine in Cape Verde.

This decree sets forth the principles and regulations for health units within the National Health Service. It outlines specific statutes for these units, differentiating between those operating as public business entities and those in the public administrative sector. The decree applies to all National Health Service entities in the healthcare network, including hospitals, hospital centers, local health units, and other establishments providing care to National Health Service users, under public-private partnership agreements.

This Act establishes a unified health system, coordinates the inter-relationship between the national government and county government health systems, provides for regulation of health care service and health care service providers, health products and health technologies and for connected purposes.

This Act makes provision for the training, registration and licensing of occupational therapists; regulates their practice; provides for the establishment, powers and functions of the Occupational Therapy Council of Kenya and for connected purposes.

The law creates the Order of Pharmacists of Cape Verde and provides its Statutes.

This Act makes provision for the training, registration and licensing of physiotherapists, regulates their practice, provides for the establishment, powers and functions of the Physiotherapy Council of Kenya and for connected purposes.

This Act provides for the training, registration, licensing, practice and standards of counsellors and psychologists and for connected purposes.

This Act makes provisions for the establishment of the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority and for connected purposes.

This Act consolidates and amends the law to make provision for the registration of medical practitioners and dentists and for purposes connected therewith and incidental thereto.

This Act provides for the training, registration and licensing of nutritionists and dieticians; provides for the regulation of the standards, and practice of the profession; ensures their effective participation in matters relating to nutrition and dietetics, and for connected purposes.

This law sets out the foundations of the National Health Service, including the definition of health actions and services, on a permanent or occasional basis, by natural or legal persons governed by public or private law, with a view to promoting and protecting health, preventing, treating and rehabilitating illness.

This Act provides for the training, registration and licensing of medical laboratory technicians and technologists, provides for the establishment, powers and functions of the Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists Board, and for connected purposes.

This Act makes provisions for the training, registration and licensing of clinical officers; to regulate their practice and for connected purposes.

This Act makes provision for the training, registration, enrolment and licensing of nurses, regulates their conduct and ensures their maximum participation in the health care of the community and other connected purposes.

The purpose of this Act is to make better provision for the control of the profession of pharmacy and the trade in drugs and poisons.