Health Legislation

The law institutes the Compulsory Health Insurance scheme in Mali. Its purpose is to cover the health care costs inherent in sickness and maternity for insured persons and their dependent family members. The law defines the beneficiaries, the guaranteed benefits, the conditions of coverage, affiliation and registration, and financial organization, among other aspects.

The law regulates the compulsory health insurance scheme, the terms and conditions of membership, the benefits covered, the assumption of responsibility for benefits and care providers among other areas.

This Act provides for integrated and coordinated disaster management that focuses on prevention, preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery from, disasters or emergency situations, and the management of their effects, establishes a National Disaster Management Agency and Regional, District and Village Disaster Management Committees.

The Ordinance creates a public scientific and technological establishment, the Agence Nationale de Télésanté et d'Informatique Médicale (National Agency for Telehealth and Medical Informatics.). The purpose of this agency is to ensure the promotion and development of telehealth and medical informatics in Mali.

The Act provides for the establishment of the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital and its Management Board, and for connected matters.

The document establishes the list of essential medicines in the Republic of Mali.

This Act sets out the rights and responsibilities of children, consolidates the laws relating to children, provides for the care, protection and maintenance of children, establishes a Children’s Court, provides for a criminal justice system for children and other connected purposes.

This Act provides for a sustainable, effective and efficient national statistical system for The Gambia for the collection, production and dissemination of integrated, relevant, reliable, timely statistical information, establishes The Gambia Bureau of Statistics as a supervisory authority for the national statistical system.

The Act establishes and regulates a decentralised local government system for the Gambia; it makes provision for the functions, powers and duties of local authorities and for matters connected therewith.

The document establishes Mali's hospital law. It contains fundamental principles such as the rights and duties of the patient, the obligations of hospital establishments, private hospital establishments, the organization of the hospital system, the evaluation of the hospital system, organization, and other aspects.

This law sets the objectives for the orientation, organization and planning of health care in Mali.

The Constitution of the Gambia was adopted in 1997. It is the supreme law of the country and consists of 232 articles that are grouped into 23 chapters. The Constitution sets out the values and principles of the state, defines supremacy rules for the law, proclaims fundamental rights and freedoms, establishes key bodies of the state, etc.

The Act regulates the profession of nurse and midwife in The Gambia.

The Public Health Act makes provisions for public and environmental health and other matters connected therewith.

This Act makes provision for the establishment of a Medical and Dental Council; for the Registration of Medical and Dental Practitioners; for the discipline of persons registered under the Act and other matters connected therewith.

The Act provides for the establishment of Hospital Management Boards, the charging fees for medical and health services and the regulation of such fees, the regulation of conditions under which private hospitals or other health facilities may be established, and for connected matters.

The Law creates a Code of Ethics for physicians and dental surgeons in Mali. The Code is applicable to all physicians and dental surgeons registered with the “Ordre National des Médecins” (National Order of Physicians). The Code sets out, among other things, the requirements and duties associated with the practice of the profession.

This law authorizes the private practice of health professions by individuals or legal entities, either individually or as a group, in Mali. It sets out the conditions required, as well as duties and obligations.

This Act makes provision requiring public corporations, companies, persons and other business enterprises to make financial contributions towards the operation and maintenance of the medical services, and connected matters.

The Act makes provision for the acquisition of citizenship of The Gambia by registration in certain cases; regulates the manner and circumstances in which aliens may naturalised as citizens of The Gambia and in which citizens of The Gambia may renounce or be deprived of their citizenship; and makes provision for certain other matters relating to citizenship of The Gambia.