Health Legislation

This Decree sets the operation modalities for some health competencies transferred by the State to the regions.

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. 

This Order establishes the creation, attributions and organization of the National Order of Midwives of Gabon.

This Decree contains the draft law relating to the practice of the profession of midwife in Senegal and establishing the order of midwives and obstetricians to be presented before the National Assembly of Senegal.

The Decree N°11-122 addresses the special status of civil servants belonging to the corps of public health midwives. It was published in the Official Journal of 20 March 2011 (pages 36 - 40)

The Order establishes the professional Code of conduct for nurses and midwives in Rwanda. This Order concerns nurses and midwives registered with the National Council of Nurses and Midwives.

The Decree establishes the system for financing the actions of provincial governments and municipal administrations, as deconcentrated executive bodies of the central administration, within the framework of the delimitation of competences for the provision of public goods and services between the central administration and local administrations and between them.

This decree creates the services of the decentralized territorial authorities and fixes their attributions.

The decree creates a technical-administrative division known as a health district for towns, departments, arrondissements and communes. The Health District is the local level for the design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of health policy.

These rules establish a framework for the practice of nursing and midwifery in Uganda, outlining the qualifications, licensing, professional conduct, and disciplinary procedures for nurses and midwives.

The order M°154/MSP/CAB of 29 December 1994 provides the structure and mandate for the Departmental Directorate for Health ("Direction Departementale de la Santé"); this directorate represents the Ministry of Public Health at the level of the department or the urban community and participates in the elaboration, implementation and evaluation of the National Health policy ( providing the competence of the Department Direction for Health). The subdivisions of this directorate include an Executive Secretariat; an Administrative, Financial and Personnel Management Department; a Family Health Service; a Programming and Health Information Department; a Health Education, Hygiene and Sanitation Department; a Health Education, Hygiene and Sanitation Department; a Pharmacy and Laboratory Department.

These Regulations establish the requirements for the registration of nurses, their training, conduct and related disciplinary measures.