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Section 36 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Rules for prevention of disease

    

Whenever any part of Kenya appears to be threatened by any formidable epidemic, endemic or infectious disease, the Minister may make rules for all or any of the following purposes, namely—
(a) the speedy interment of the dead;
(b) house to house visitation;
(c) the provision of medical aid and accommodation, the promotion of cleansing, ventilation and disinfection and guarding against the spread of disease;
(d) preventing any person from leaving any infected area without undergoing all or any of the following, namely, medical examination, disinfection, inoculation, vaccination or revaccination and passing a specified period in an observation camp or station;
(e) the formation of hospitals and observation camps or stations, and
placing therein persons who are suffering from or have been in contact with persons suffering from infectious disease;
(f) the destruction or disinfection of buildings, furniture, goods or other
articles, which have been used by persons suffering from infectious disease, or which are likely to spread the infection;
(g) the removal of persons who are suffering from an infectious disease and persons who have been in contact with such persons;
(h) the removal of corpses;
(i) the destruction of rats, the means and precautions to be taken on shore or on board vessels for preventing them passing from vessels to the shore or from the shore to vessels, and the better prevention of the danger of spreading infection by rats;
(j) the regulation of hospitals used for the reception of persons suffering from an infectious disease and of observation camps and stations;
(k) the removal and disinfection of articles which have been exposed to infection;
(l) prohibiting any person living in any building or using any building for any other purposes whatsoever, if in the opinion of the medical officer of health any such use is liable to cause the spread of any infectious disease; and any rule made under this paragraph may give the health officer or a medical officer of health power to prescribe the conditions on which such a building may be used;
(m) any other purpose, whether of the same kind or nature as the foregoing or not, having for its object the prevention, control or suppression of infectious diseases,
and may by order declare all or any of the rules so made to be in force within any area specified in the order, and such area shall be deemed an infected area, and to apply to any vessels, whether on inland waters or on arms or parts of the sea within the territorial jurisdiction of Kenya.

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