CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROCEDURE UPON INFANT’S BIRTH (§ 32.1-62)

In order to prevent ophthalmia neonatorum, the physician, nurse or midwife in
charge of the delivery of a baby or, if none, the first attending physician
shall, immediately after the baby’s birth, perform upon such baby the
procedure prescribed by the Board. Such action shall be duly recorded in the
medical record of the baby.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 32-107; 1979, c. 711.