Health Legislation

This Proclamation is to provide for Food and Medicine Administration. It provides rules to regulate several areas including food, medicine, medical devices, cosmetics, and tobacco products.

The Constitution was reviewed and adopted in 2019. The Constitution contains 159 articles addressing a large number of issues such as the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms, the fundamental principles of the state and institutional arrangements (non-exhaustive list).

The purpose of the law is to regulate the collection, processing, transmission, storage, use, and protection of personal data.

This Regulation is to determine the fee payable for registration and license of food, medicine, health professional and health institutions.

This regulation is issued to implement the Food Medicine and Health Care Administration and Control Proclamation No 661/2009. and covers among other aspects of food safety and quality which includes manufacturing, storage and transportation among other aspects; sale of alcohol; medicine administration and control which includes manufacturing, registration, storage, transportation, importation ad clinical trials among others; traditional and complementary medicine administration and control; post-marketing surveillance; control of tobacco products and places prohibited for smoking among other aspects.  

The decree establishes rules concerning the free movement and establishment of doctors in the West African Economic and Monetary Union.

This decree establishes a code of ethics for all physicians practicing in Togo.

The Proclamation establishes a mandatory health insurance scheme for pensioners, employees and members of their families in Ethiopia.

The Law establishes a mandatory health insurance scheme for pensioners, employees and members of their families in Ethiopia.

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

The code provides rules regarding different rears of public health. It defines the rights and duties pertaining to the protection and promotion of the health of the population.

The law regulates civil status in Togo. It was published in the Official Journal on 30 June 2009 (pages 6 to 11).

This law creates a National Order of Pharmacists.

This law creates a National Order of Physicians.

These regulations establish the Health Professionals Council. The council has, among other things, the following attributions: advise the Minister; work in collaboration with the appropriate bodies, ensure that health professional training offered in the country is of high standard; make sure that professional ethics are observed by professionals; follow up and supervise that the names of registered professionals and those who are cancelled from the registry due to various reasons are properly kept by the secretariat.

The Proclamation regulates different aspects of Public Health such as food quality control and standards (Articles 8 and 9); water quality control (Article 10); occupational health (Article 11), waste handling and disposal (Article 12); availability of toilet facilities in health institutions (Article 13); control of bathing places and pools (Article 14); disposal of dead bodies (art.15); control at entrance and exit ports in Ethiopia making mandatory vaccines for people coming from outside (Article 16); and Communicable Diseases (art.17).

The Constitution was promulgated in 1995. It includes 106 articles addressing a large number of issues as the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms, the fundamental principles of the state and institutional arrangements.

The Decree institutes a national identity card.