Health Legislation

This Act repeals the provisions of the Food and Drugs Ordinance which relates to food; repeals the Meat Hygiene Ordinance, and provides for the more efficient control of the food industry.

This Act makes provision to restrict the management of private hospitals to approved organizations, to control fees and other charges payable in respect of medical treatment and other services rendered by private hospitals, to regulate scales of emoluments payable to medical practitioners employed at private hospitals, and to make provisions connected with those matters.

The Decree creates a public-law institution called the Ordre des Médecins du Burundi. It is responsible for preserving the rules of medical ethics, honor, discretion and dignity of members of the Order in the practice of the medical profession.

This Act consolidates and amends the Law relating to Prisons, and provides for the Organization, Discipline, Powers and Duties pf Prison Officers, and for matters incidental thereto and connected therewith.

This Act makes better provision for the control and prevention of the spread of the tsetse flies; and provides for matters incidental thereto.

This Act makes provisions for the registration of births and deaths and for the issue by medical practitioners of certificates of the cause of death.

The Burundi Civil Code provides a comprehensive set of laws governing civil matters such as property rights, contracts, family law, and obligations. It consists of 3 books dedicated to (1) Personal and Family Code (2) Of goods and different modifications of property and (3) Contracts or conventional obligations.