Section 17Part 5 — Public Health Laboratory Service
Cabinet may provide a public health laboratory service
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The Cabinet may provide a public health laboratory service under the direction and control of the Chief Medical Officer. The functions of the laboratory shall include —
carrying out investigations on epidemiological problems related to the infectious diseases;
providing a bacteriological service for public health field workers:
undertaking chemical analysis and bacteriological examinations of samples of food, drink, drugs and water submitted by Government staff;
undertaking chemical analysis of blood, urine or other substances submitted by the Commissioner of Police; and
maintaining a link with the World Health Organisation particularly with regard to the quarantine diseases of smallpox, typhus, yellow fever, cholera, relapsing fever and plague.