State Act

THE KERALA PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 2023

30. Maintenance of isolation hospitals and wards.—(1) The Local Public Health Officer shall with the assistance of Local Self Governments, if necessitated by the nature of the disease, take the following activities, namely:— (a) arrange hospitals, wards or other places for examining and treating persons having communicable disease or notifiable communicable disease; (b) provide and maintain conveyances for carrying persons having communicable disease or notifiable communicable disease; (c) arrange facilities for diagnosis and treatment of persons who are suffering or suspected to suffer from communicable disease or notifiable communicable disease; and (d) ensure conveyances, cloths, beds or other articles which had been exposed to infection are disinfected in proper manner. (2) Each healthcare institutions shall report to the Local Public Health Officer and District Public Health Officer,— (a) information relating to communicable disease or notifiable communicable disease in an area; (b) the details of diagonosis or services, etc. provided to persons suffering or suspected of suffering from any communicable disease or notifiable communicable disease; and (c) the treatment required and the details thereof for such persons;