Bare ActsThe KERALA PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 2023

Section 33

Registered medical practitioners to certify a person free from notifiable communicable disease

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Registered medical practitioners to certify a person free from notifiable communicable disease.—(1) Whenever a person who is affected by communicable disease as specified under sub-section (2) of section 28 and sub-section (2) of section 31 or infections included in the National Health Programmes, and after getting free from the same, requires to be certified as free from the disease, the medical practitioner who treated the person herself shall, after conducting all the examinations including lab examinations, issue a certificate as to free from disease in the specified form. (2) If a medical practitioner without sufficient reason refuses to give the certificate as per sub-section (1), or issue a certificate without treating as per sub-section (1), shall be liable to fine specified in section 65.

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