2023 Laws not yet authenticated through a Commencement Order

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)

5.   Provisions relating to the operation of a surgical or maternity hospital

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    (1)   Without prejudice to regulation 4 of these Regulations no person shall operate or cause to be operated a private hospital providing the services of surgery except the following requirements are provided—

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      (a)     an operating suite suitably equipped to carry on the work of the hospital;

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      (b)     the provision of adequate equipment or facilities for the sterilisation of all instruments;

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      (c)     a suitable unit for the disposal of soiled dressings, organs, parts of organs and parts of the body removed in the course of an operation;

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      (d)     facilities for the removal of corpses from the hospital and a mortuary.

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    (2)   Without prejudice to regulation 4 of these regulations, no person shall operate or cause to be operated a private hospital as a maternity hospital except the following requirements are provided—

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      (a)     a delivery room;

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      (b)     a suitable nursery for the care of new born infants, such being equipped with suitable refrigeration and bottle sterilisation facilities;

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      (c)     suitable accommodation for the isolation of patients having puerperal infection;

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      (d)     adequate supply of oxygen and suction apparatus.