Health Legislation

This document establishes a National List of Essential Medicines in the Central African Republic.

This Proclamation regulates activities in respect of food, medicine, environmental health, health professionals, health and controllable health related institutions in the country.

The law regulates the legal framework for the exercise of private medicine.   

The present Statute applies to the Hospitals of the National Health Service and aims to establish general rules on their organization and operation.

The Ordinance creates a public scientific and technological establishment, the Agence Nationale de Télésanté et d'Informatique Médicale (National Agency for Telehealth and Medical Informatics.). The purpose of this agency is to ensure the promotion and development of telehealth and medical informatics in Mali.

This Law amends Articles 1, 2 and 12 of Law No 2000-01 of January 10, 2000 establishing a public health establishment with special status called "Hôpital Principal de Dakar"

This decree regulates the operation of private pharmacies, namely the requirements to be met by the premises of pharmacies and medicine sales points and their minimum areas, the necessary equipment, as well as the rules governing their activity and organization and the respective technical staff.

This decree, taken in application of the provisions of article 109 of Ordinance No. 01/95/PR/MSP of January 14, 1995, sets out the procedures for the care of patients in public health facilities.

The National Accreditation Board Act of 2007 establishes the National Accreditation Board and provides for related purposes.

This Act regulates the private insurance industry by setting out the legal framework for the licensing, operation, and supervision of insurance companies, ensuring solvency, etc.

The resolution approves the Charter of Patients' Rights and Duties.

This Act amends the Medicines and Related Substances Control Act, 2003, so as to amend and delete certain definitions; provides for a period within which the Council must be appointed; provides for the appointment of chairpersons of committees established by the Council; amends provisions relating to the classification of medicines and other substances as scheduled substances; amends provisions relating to the manufacturing, packing and selling of specified Schedule 3 and specified Schedule 4 substances; deletes references to generic substitutions; substitutes references to Schedule 1, Schedule 2, Schedule 3 or Schedule 4 medicines by references to Schedule 1, Schedule 2, Schedule 3 or Schedule 4 substances; inserts provisions relating to the registration of premises engaged in the manufacturing of medicines; amends provisions relating to offences and penalties; amends provisions relating to the destruction of forfeited medicines, scheduled substances or other things; provides for the making of regulations in relation to medicines; amends provisions relating to the exclusion of medicines from the operation of the Act; amends the transitional provisions; amends provisions relating to the repeal and amendment of certain laws; and provides for matters incidental thereto.

This Act amends section 38 of the Pharmacy and Drugs Act of 2001.

The circular N°12 refers to inspections conducted in retail pharmacies. The text of the circular is provided as part of a compendium of pharmaceutical legislation (see pages 7 to 9).

This decree regulates the marketing authorization, registration, manufacture, import, export, marketing, donations and advertising of medicines for human use.

The Act provides for the establishment of the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital and its Management Board, and for connected matters.

The document establishes the list of essential medicines in the Republic of Mali.

These Guidelines provide comprehensive protocols for healthcare workers in South Sudan, outlining evidence-based practices for preventing and treating common diseases and conditions at primary and secondary care levels.

The decree establishes the principles and rules governing central hospitals.

The policy establishes the national list of essential medicines and treatment guidelines in Lesotho.