Health Legislation

This decree creates the National Identification Card for Cape Verdean citizens and establishes the framework for its issue, replacement, use and cancellation.

This Regulation sets up rules on to the transportation of urgent and emergency patients, and to the transportation of non-urgent patients by land.

The purpose of the law is to establish the legal rules applicable to the processing of personal data with the aim of guaranteeing respect for public freedoms and the fundamental rights and guarantees of natural persons.

The Constitution of Angola was promulgated in 2010. The Constitution contains 244 articles addressing a large number of issues such as the protection of fundamental rights, freedoms, guarantees  and duties, the fundamental principles of the state and institutional arrangements. The Constitution was amended in 2021 (the 2021 amendment is available in the legislation repository).

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.

The Decree adopts the National Health Policy 2010-2025. The general objective of the National Health Policy (NHP) is to establish, define and outline guidelines for improving the population's state of health and quality of life in order to achieve the vision of a healthy life for all.

The Decree establishes the General Bases of the National Pharmaceutical Policy.

The law creates the legal framework for civil identification and the issue of national identity cards. The purpose is to collect, process and store the personal data of each citizen in order to establish their civil identity. The law applies to acts of civil identification and the issuing of identity cards to Angolan citizens from the age of at least six.

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 law establishes the conditions for the attribution, acquisition, loss and reacquisition of Angolan nationality.

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.

The document approved the Medical Deontology and Ethic Code of Angola. It is a legal instrument that establishes principles and rules to be observed by all doctors in the exercise of their profession. The provisions of the Code apply to all doctors registered with the Angolan Medical Association.

The law establishes the bases of the health system in Angola.

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.

The law regulates the state of situation of emergency in Angola. Defining the states of exception as exceptional situations that may suspend or limit the exercise of citizens' rights, freedoms and guarantees.