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Penalties for violation of vaccination
Article (25) after the amendment stipulates that whoever violates any of the provisions of the articles related to the need for vaccination against infectious diseases or any of the decisions of the Minister of Health issued in compliance with the provisions of these articles, will be sanctioned with a fine of not less than five hundred pounds nor more than ten thousand pounds. For a period of one year, the value of the fine is doubled within its limits, and these provisions are as follows:
1. The child must be vaccinated with the protective vaccine against smallpox within a maximum of three months from the day of his birth, in the health offices or other health units, or by the health representative to whom the health authorities competent authorities assign this job.
2. The duty to present the child for smallpox vaccination or for immunization with a diphtheria preventive injection rests on the shoulders of the parent or the person in the child’s custody. The date specified for that.
3. Every person is subject to periodic vaccinations carried out by the competent health authorities against any infectious disease, being able to present a certificate of a doctor authorized to practice the profession to carry out this vaccination or be exempt from it.
4. The health authorities may order the vaccination or immunization of the population of any part of the Republic in the region of Egypt against any infectious disease.
5. The Minister of Health will dictate the necessary decisions to organize vaccination or immunization operations against infectious diseases.
6. Without prejudice to the provisions of Law No. 44 of 1955 on quarantine procedures, the Minister of Public Health may issue the necessary decisions to isolate, control or observe people and animals from abroad and also issue decisions that specify the sanitary requirements that must be met for the entry of goods or things imported from abroad to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
7. Pilgrims are subject to vaccination and immunization against infectious diseases before leaving the Egyptian territories, in accordance with the procedures dictated by decision of the Minister of Public Health, being able to take all necessary measures to prevent infectious diseases from entering through of the pilgrims.
Cover-up penalties for patients
Article 26 after the reform establishes that, without prejudice to the more severe penalties provided in another law, whoever violates any of the provisions of the articles that oblige the family of the person with contagious diseases will be sanctioned with a fine of not less than 1,000 pounds nor more than twenty thousand pounds. The Ministry of Health will report on your status within 24 hours and will organize the complaint procedures or any of them Decisions of the Minister of Health issued in compliance with the provisions of these articles.
If the illness is of the first part, the penalty will be imprisonment for a period of not less than three months and a fine of not less than five thousand pounds and not more than fifty thousand pounds, or one of these two penalties in case of breaching the following procedures:
1. If a person is infected or is suspected of being infected with an infectious disease, the competent doctor must be notified within 24 hours, and in areas where there is no health doctor, the complaint will be made to the administrative authority in whose district the patient’s residence is located. Regarding cases of suspected infection or disease, plague and cholera, it must be reported in advance within 12 hours.
2. Those responsible for informing referred to in the previous article are in the following order:
(A) All the doctors saw the case.
(B) The head of the patient’s family, his dependents or whoever relies on his service.
(C) The person in charge of managing the work or the institution or the commander of the means of transport if the disease appears or is suspected while the patient is in place.
(D) The mayor, sheikh or representative of the administrative authority. The notification of the patient must include his name, surname, age, place of residence and work so that the competent health authorities can communicate with him.
3. Civil treatment institutions licensed to do so are permitted to accept the treatment of patients with one of the diseases of the second and third sections, if they assign for this purpose a section separate from the rest of their departments. And the Minister of Public Health specifies, by his decision, the requirements that these institutions must meet to obtain a license to do so. In all cases in which isolation occurs outside government isolation, the instructions issued by the health authorities in this regard must be followed.
4. The competent health authorities may control the people who had contact with the patient during the period they determine. She can isolate contacts of people with cholera, pneumonic plague, or lung anthrax in designated places for this, and she can isolate contacts with other diseases if they refrain from implementing control procedures in the manner specified by her.
5. The Minister of Public Health may, by resolution issued, consider a body infected by an infectious disease. In this case, the competent health authorities will take all the necessary measures to prevent the spread of the disease through isolation, disinfection, vaccination, surveillance, etc. It may in particular prevent public gatherings or births of any kind and that contaminated food and drinks are destroyed, buttons are removed, public roads are closed, bombs are erected, wells are buried, markets, cinemas and entertainment are closed, schools, cafes are closed public, or any institution or place that sees in its administration a danger to public health is by administrative means.
6. The competent health authorities have the right to exclude from all work that has contact with the preparation, sale or transport of food or beverages of any kind to people with infectious disease or carriers of the disease microbe, and who decides to deport them from the The aforementioned form will not be able to return to work from those jobs without your permission and will also be responsible The employer or his manager that allows the person to whom the removal order was issued in the aforementioned form to work for him in one of the jobs aforementioned.
7. The Minister of Health may dictate any decision on preventive measures and the control of any of the infectious diseases listed in the attached table, whether in this respect the measures taken to prevent the transmission of infection by humans or animals or by insects or any other means.
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