LAW OF UKRAINE

of July 5, 2001 No. 2586-III

About counteraction to disease of tuberculosis

This Law determines the legal, organizational and financial principles of the activities directed to counteraction to origin and spread of disease of tuberculosis, ensuring medical care by the TB patient and establishes the rights, obligations and responsibility of legal entities and physical persons in the field of counteraction to disease of tuberculosis.

Section I General provisions

Article 1. Determination of terms

1. In this Law the terms below are used in such value:

1) hospitalization - the room of person, TB patient, or person concerning whom there is suspicion of disease of tuberculosis in stationary department of antitubercular institution for the purpose of diagnostics, treatment or isolation;

2) isolation - department from people around of person sick with infectious form of tuberculosis, for the purpose of exception of possibility of transmission of infection to other persons, provision of medical care and control of observance of the anti-epidemic mode by this person;

3) infectious control of tuberculosis - the system of organizational, anti-epidemic and preventive actions established by the central executive body which provides forming and realizes state policy in the field of health care in the standard of infectious control of tuberculosis, directed to prevention of emergence of tuberculosis and decrease in probability of infection with mycobacteria of tuberculosis of persons in treatment-and-prophylactic institutions, places of long-term stay of people and accommodation of TB patients;

4) the contact person - person who is and/or was in contact with the person or animal, sick with infectious form of tuberculosis and thereof has risk of infection with tuberculosis;

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