CODE OF VIRGINIA

DUTY OF BOARD TO PROVIDE FOR TREATMENT (§ 32.1-64)

The Board shall provide for the gratuitous distribution of the necessary
treatment approved by it for ophthalmia neonatorum, together with proper
directions for the use and administration thereof, to all physicians, midwives
and hospitals requesting it. The Board shall provide free of charge in medically
indigent cases the necessary treatment for ophthalmia neonatorum when the cause
is ascertained to be gonococcus.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 32-109; 1979, c. 711.