Health Legislation

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. 

This Law amends the Law 03/2015 of 02/03/2015 governing the Organisation of Community-Based Health Insurance Scheme. Please refer to page 171 of the file to see the text of the Law.

By this decree, the Government of Benin appoints the auditors of the National Health Insurance Agency.

This Proclamation is to provide for Food and Medicine Administration. It provides rules to regulate several areas including food, medicine, medical devices, cosmetics, and tobacco products.

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

This order, which provides for the organization and governance of health structures in the Gabonese Republic, supplements order No 1/95 of January 14, 1995, providing guidance for health policy in the Gabonese Republic.

The law creates a compulsory health insurance scheme known as the "Régime d'Assurance Maladie Universelle" (Universal Health Insurance Scheme) designed to cover the health care costs attached to sickness and maternity for insured persons and their dependent family members.

This Law amends the Law 03/2015 of 02/03/2015 governing the Organisation of Community-Based Health Insurance Scheme.

This Law establishes the Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority and determines its mission, organization and functioning. The authority has a legal personality and enjoys administrative and financial autonomy. 

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.

The law creates a public administrative establishment, called the "Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire", under the supervision of the Ministry of Health. The mission of the Agence is to implement the strategic orientations of the Ministry of Health in the field of health safety.

This Law establishes the organisation of the community-based insurance scheme.

The Law determines the organization, functioning and management of health insurance schemes in Rwanda.

This decree establishes the Steering Committee for the implementation of the Universal Health Insurance Scheme and contains provisions concerning its composition as well as its departmental and regional structures.

This law establishes the universal health insurance scheme which covers for the insured and their dependents the access to health services in the public and private sector (except for accidents at work and occupational illnesses). It was later amended by Law n°12-2023.

This decree was adopted to implement the Law 2014-131 (universal health insurance) to establish the Social Security Institution ("institution de Prévoyance sociale").

The decree creates a multi-sectoral committee to combat counterfeiting and the illicit sale of medicines and other pharmaceutical products, reporting to Niger's Minister of Public Health.

The Health Professions Regulatory Bodies Act of 2013 establishes the Allied Health Professions Council, the Medical and Dental Council, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the Pharmacy Council, the Psychology Council and provides for related purposes.

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