Health Legislation

This decision by the minister of public health provides the prices and conditions of availability of rapid malaria diagnosis kits.

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

The decree establishes the principles and rules governing central hospitals.

This law sets out the foundations of the National Health Service, including the definition of health actions and services, on a permanent or occasional basis, by natural or legal persons governed by public or private law, with a view to promoting and protecting health, preventing, treating and rehabilitating illness.

This law provides the rules to govern the profession of opticians.

This law provides the general framework for the action of the State in the area of health.

The Constitution was promulgated by the Lei constitucional No 1/IV/92, de 25 de setembro. It includes 293 articles addressing a wide array of issues including among other things fundamental rights and duties, the fundamental principles of the Republic and institutional arrangements.

This decree sets the modalities for registration on the register of the "Ordre National des Pharmaciens" (National Order of Pharmacists), the operation of the Order, the granting of authorizations to practice as a pharmacist in private practice.

This law provides the rules to govern the profession of dentists.

This law provides the rules to govern the profession of doctors.

This law establishes the national identity card.

This law provides the rules to govern the profession of pharmacists.

This law modifies articles 3, 5, 6, 7, 15 and 36 of the law n°84-10 setting the organization of the medical and health profession ("Loi No 84-010 fixant l'organisation de l'ordre des professions Medico-sanitaires: infirmier, sage-femme et technicien medico-sanitaire").

This law modifies article 3 of the law n°84-09 providing the rules for the exercise of the professions of nurse, midwives and health technician.

This laws provides the rules governing nurses, midwives and health technicians.

This law sets the rules governing the organization of the Order of medical and health professions covering nurses, midwives and health technicians.

This Order provides the rules governing the advertising of medicines.

This law provides rules governing the organization of the civil status and various provisions relating to the status of natural persons.

The Constitution was adopted in 1972 and modified in 1996 and 2008. It includes 69 articles addressing among other things, The State and the Sovereignty, the different institutions (including executive, legislative and judiciary powers), international relations and constitutional revision.