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Public Law
Approved June 18, 1964

Republic Act No. 4073

An act further liberalizing the treatment of leprosy by amending and repealing certain sections of the revised administrative code

An Act Further Liberalizing the Treatment of Leprosy by Amending and Repealing Certain Sections of the Revised Administrative Code

In plain language

This act amends Sections 1058 and 1059 of the Revised Administrative Code to allow leprosy patients to receive treatment outside leprosariums and to restrict institutional confinement to cases where it is medically necessary, and repeals Sections 1060 through 1071.

  • Amendment of Sec. 1058 to allow treatment of leprosy patients outside leprosariums
  • Amendment of Sec. 1059 to restrict confinement to sanitariums only when medically necessary
  • Repeal of Secs. 1060-1071 of the Revised Administrative Code
Health
Leprosy
Revised Administrative Code
Public Health
Philippines

REPUBLIC ACT No. 4073

An Act Further Liberalizing the Treatment of Leprosy by Amending and Repealing Certain Sections of the Revised Administrative Code

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1

Sections one thousand fifty-eight and one thousand fifty-nine of the Revised Administrative Code, as amended, are further amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 1058. Persons afflicted with leprosy not to be segregated. -Except when certified by the Secretary of Health or his authorized representatives that the stage of the disease requires institutional treatment, no persons afflicted with leprosy shall be confined in a leprosarium: Provided, That such person shall be treated in any government skin clinic, rural health unit or by a duly licensed physician.

"Sec. 1059. Confinement and treatment in sanitarium when necessary. -Whenever a person afflicted with leprosy shall have developed the disease to such stage as to require institutional treatment and the leprosy officer shall so certify, the said person shall forthwith be sent to a government operated sanitarium and be treated therein until such time as the Secretary of Health or his authorized representative decides that institutional treatment is no longer necessary.

Section 2

Sections one thousand sixty to one thousand seventy-one, inclusive, of the same Code, as amended, are hereby repealed.

Section 3

This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 18, 1964.

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