Public health Act
The Public Health Act repeals, re-enacts, consolidates and amends the law relating to public health in Botswana.
National Health Quality Standards - Standards and guidelines for emergency medical services
This document outlines the required standards and guidelines for delivering high-quality emergency medical services in Botswana, focusing on ensuring effective, timely, and consistent care across the healthcare system.
Medicines and related substances Act
This Act provides for the registration, regulation of the sale, distribution, importation, exportation, manufacture and dispensing of medicines and related substances, and matters incidental thereto.
The National Health Quality Standards - "Health Care Organizational Management" provide comprehensive guidelines for managing healthcare organizations in Botswana, covering areas such as governance, resource management, leadership, quality improvement, and compliance with regulatory standards to ensure effective and efficient delivery of healthcare services.
The "National Health Quality Standards - Diagnostic, Care, and Treatment Support Services" establish guidelines and standards for the provision of diagnostic services, patient care, and treatment support in Botswana.
Essential drug list
These guidelines establish an Essential Drug List of Botswana of 2012 and provide the requirements regarding the levels of availability across health care providers.
The Diploma approves the Medicines Registration Manual. The purpose of the Manual is to (a) Standardize the procedures and activities relating to the registration of medicines; (b) Clarify the doubts that professionals have encountered when interpreting the Registration Regulations; (c) Support professionals in the field in carrying out their daily activities in a standardized way; (d) Support applicants in complying with registration and post-registration procedures; (e) to make the registration process an optimized and increasingly swift process.
The law regulates the legal framework for the exercise of private medicine.
The present Statute applies to the Hospitals of the National Health Service and aims to establish general rules on their organization and operation.
The Decree introduces an Identity Card for national citizens based on biometric elements.
The resolution approves the Charter of Patients' Rights and Duties.
The Law establishes the Order of Doctors of Mozambique and provides the Statute of the Order as an integral part of the law.
This Regulation establishes the legal framework applicable to the contracting of public works, and the supply of goods and services to the State, including consultancy and concessions.
The law approves the Civil Registration Code.
Constituição
The Constitution was promulgated in 2004 and modified in 2018. It includes 306 articles (17 titles) addressing a large number of issues as the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms, the fundamental principles of the state and institutional arrangements.
The Diploma approves the general regulation of hospitals in Mozambique. The regulation applies to all hospitals in the National Health Service and to those that are managed by the private non-profit sector.
The Resolution approves the Traditional medicine policy and implementation strategy.
The resolution approves the strategy for preventing and combating drugs.
This diploma establishes the technical description of the different institutions of the National Health Service across the four levels of care, the classification and their specific functions.
Health professions Act
This Act regulates and controls the practice of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and allied health professions, and provides for matters connected and associated therewith.