Health Legislation

These guidelines are designed to clarify criteria for credentialing and privileging of health professionals in Rwanda.

The document sets up standards to provide guidance to teaching institutions for health professional education and affiliated teaching hospitals and/or second-level teaching hospitals. The health teaching institution must meet the requirements set out in the Standards to obtain accreditation certification and deliver high-quality health professional training.

The document is a check-list that serves as a “road map” for executives for an assessment of health professional colleges and schools in Rwanda.

These Instructions determine the duties and functioning of committees in charge of management of public or subsidised health facilities. These instructions apply to the following committees of health facilities: Committee of a Referral Hospital; Committee of a Provincial Hospital; Committee of a District Hospital; Committee of a Specialised Hospital; Committee of a Medicalised Health Centre; and Committee of a Health Centre. 

The law sets out the fundamental principles and rules for the organization and operation of the national public health system.

The Curriculum for the Diploma in Pharmacy are the guidelines for the training and qualification in pharmacy.

The Decree creates a Code of Ethics for pharmacists in Mali. The Code is applicable to all pharmacists who meet the legal and regulatory requirements and are registered with the Ordre des Pharmaciens (Order of Pharmacists). The Code sets out, among other things, the requirements and duties associated with the practice of the profession.

The document adopts the Code of Ethics which have the rights, duties and the incompatibilities of practicing the profession.

The guidelines set up grading criteria and scoring for health professionals in Rwanda.

This document sets out the minimum standards for courses and the curricula for the Bachelor of Nursing Science Program in Uganda.

The law enacts the Code of medical ethics in Nigeria for every medical and dental practitioner.

The document approved the Medical Deontology and Ethic Code of Angola. It is a legal instrument that establishes principles and rules to be observed by all doctors in the exercise of their profession. The provisions of the Code apply to all doctors registered with the Angolan Medical Association.

This document provides a general nomenclature of professional acts of Doctors, Surgeons, Specialists, Dental Surgeons and Midwives and of laboratory examinations and analyses.

This Code establishes deontology rules for pharmacists in Gabon.

This document sets out the standards of conduct, performance and ethics for the members of the Health Professional Council of Seychelles.