The decree covers the powers, organization and operation of the Public Hygiene Police.
This document sets out the reasons why the Law no. 022-2005/AN on the public hygiene code was adopted. The document make a specific resume for each chapter of the law.
This law governs public hygiene in Burkina Faso, in particular hygiene on public roads and squares, the hygiene of swimming pools and bathing areas, homes, food products, water, industrial and commercial facilities, schools, pre-schools and health establishments, public buildings and the natural environment, and noise control. Its main objective is to preserve and promote public health.
The Code for Public Health and Social Action for People's well -being ("code de la santé publique et de l'action sociale pour le bien être de la population) provides the legal rules applicables to health activities and structures tasked to ensure health protection and promotion. It is important to note that there are reports of a new public health code under development, the latest version that could be retrieved online is however the one provided here (from 1995).
Loi n° 23 94/ADP portant Code de la Santé publique
The Code provides rules on the protection and promotion of health in Burkina Faso. The Code is developed around five axes: a section on general principles of the health system in Burkina Faso as well as health care and service coverage; a section on general protection and promotion of public health, which includes general and specific sanitary measures; a section on health professions and their legal status and a section on rules for pharmaceutical products, other products and traditional pharmacopoeia. The last part includes the Final Provisions.