Part 3 — Communicable Diseases and Public Health Emergencies
22 Notification of communicable disease
of an institution knows or has reason to believe that a person under
the care, custody, supervision or control of the health practitioner,
teacher or person in charge of an institution is infected with a
communicable disease prescribed in the regulations for the
purposes of this subsection, the health practitioner, teacher or
person in charge of an institution shall notify a medical officer of
health
(a) by the fastest means possibl e in the case of a prescribed
disease that is designated in the regulations as requiring
immediate notification, or
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(b) within 48 hours in the prescribed form in the case of any
other prescribed disease.
(1.1) Where an operator of a supportive living accommodation as
defined in the Continuing Care Act knows or has reason to believe
that a person residing at the supportive living accommodation is
infected with a communicable disease prescribed in the regulations
for the purposes of subsection (1), the operator shall notify a
medical officer of health in accordance with subsection (1)(a) and
(b).
(2) Where a physician, a nurse practitioner or a midwife knows or
has reason to believe that a person under the care in a hospital of
the physician, nurse practitioner or midwife is infected with a
disease to which subsection (1) applies, the physician, nurse
practitioner or midwife shall, in addition to carrying out the
physician's, nurse practitioner's or midwife's responsibilities under
subsection (1), immediately inform the medical director or other
person in charge of the hospital, and the medical director shall
notify a medical officer of health by telephone or in accordance
with the prescribed form.
(3) Where a physician, a community health nurse, a nurse
practitioner, a midwife or a person in charge of an institution
knows or has reason to believe that a person under the care,
custody, supervision or control of the physician, community health
nurse, nurse practitioner, midwife or person in charge of an
institution is infected with a disease referred to in section 20(2), the
physician, community health nurse, nurse practitioner, midwife or
person in charge of an institution shall, within 48 hours, notify a
medical officer of health in the prescribed form.
(4) Where an operator of a supportive living accommodation as
defined in the Continuing Care Act knows or has reason to believe
that a person residing at the supportive living accommodation is
infected with a disease referred to in section 20(2), the operator
shall, within 48 hours, notify a medical officer of health in the
prescribed form.
RSA 2000 cP-37 s22;2002 c20 s4;2007 c23 s4;
2009 cS-23.5 s26;2016 c25 s11;2022 cC-26.7 s77