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National Health Act, 2003 (Act No. 61 of 2003)

Regulations

Regulations relating to the Surveillance and the Control of Notifiable Medical Conditions, 2017

Chapter 2 : Declaration of Notifiable Medical Conditions

13. Notification and reporting process

 

(1)

(a) A health care provider who diagnoses a patient with a notifiable medical condition listed in Annexure A, Table 1, must report the medical condition to the focal person at the health sub-district level by the most rapid means available upon diagnosis, even before the case is laboratory confirmed in order to facilitate the implementation of public health measures and response;
(b) The report contemplated in subregulation (a) must be followed by a  written or electronic notification within 24 hours of diagnosis, in order to facilitate the implementation of public health measures and response;
(c) A health care provider who diagnoses a patient with a notifiable medical condition listed in Annexure A, Table 2, must notify the focal person at the health sub-district level of the medical condition within seven (7) days of diagnosis, through a written or electronic notification, in order to facilitate the implementation of public health measures and response.

 

(2)

(a) A health care provider who diagnoses or treats a patient with a notifiable medical condition listed in Annexure A, Tables 1 and 2, and the patient subsequently dies as a result of such a condition, must report the death to the focal person at the health sub-district level by the most rapid means available in order to facilitate the implementation of public health measures and response;
(b) The report contemplated in subregulation (a) must be followed by a written or electronic notification within 24 hours of diagnosis, in order to facilitate the implementation of public health measures and response.

 

(3)

(a) A pathologist or laboratory personnel, who diagnoses a notifiable medical condition listed in Annexure A, Table 1, must, upon diagnosis, report the medical condition to the focal person at the health sub -district level by the most rapid means available in order to facilitate the implementation of public health measures and response;
(b) The report contemplated in subregulation (a) must be followed by a written or electronic notification within 24 hours of diagnosis, to facilitate the implementation of public health measures and response;
(c) A pathologist or laboratory personnel, who diagnoses a notifiable medical condition listed in Annexure A, Table 2, must notify the focal person at the health sub-district level of the medical condition within seven (7) days of diagnosis, through a written or electronic notification in order to facilitate the implementation of public health measures and response;
(d) A pathologist or laboratory personnel, who diagnoses a notifiable medical condition listed in Annexure A, Table 3, must notify the focal person at the health sub-district level of the medical condition within 7 days of diagnosis, through a written or electronic notification, in order to facilitate the implementation of public health measures and response.
(e) A pathologist or laboratory personnel, who diagnoses a notifiable medical condition listed in Annexure A, Table 4, must notify the focal person at the health sub-district level of the medical condition within 1 month of diagnosis, through a written or electronic notification, in order to facilitate the implementation of public health measures and response.

 

(4) A Medical Scheme must report a notifiable medical condition listed in Annexure A, Tables 1, 2, 3 and 4, for which it has received a claim from a health care provider, a pathologist or laboratory personnel, to the national department on a monthly basis in order to facilitate the implementation of public health measures and response.

 

(5)

(a) A health care provider, pathologist or laboratory personnel who has knowledge of an outbreak or an unusual incidence of—
(i) a notifiable medical condition listed in Annexure A, Tables 1, 2, 3 and 4;
(ii) a medical condition deemed to be notifiable by the Minister; or
(iii) any other unusual case or cluster of disease not listed in Annexure A,

must immediately report the outbreak or unusual incidence to the focal person at the health sub- district level, in order to facilitate the implementation of public health measures and response;

(b) The report contemplated in subregulation (a) must be followed by a written or electronic notification within 24 hours of diagnosis, in order to facilitate the implementation of public health measures and response.

 

(6)

(a) A health care provider, must report data elements for notifiable medical conditions listed in Annexure A, Tables 1 and 2 as detailed in Annexure B, Table 1;
(b) A pathologist and laboratory personnel, must report data elements for notifiable medical conditions listed in Annexure A, Tables 1, 2, 3 and 4 as detailed in Annexure B, Table 2;
(c) A Medical Scheme must report data elements for notifiable medical conditions listed in Annexure A, Tables 1, 2, 3 and 4 as detailed in Annexure B, Table 3.