HEALTH AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

HEALTH OF THE POPULATION AND SOCIAL ACTION
Article 19:
The following powers shall be devolved upon councils:
a) Health and population:
– civil status registration;
– setting up equipping managing and maintaining council health centres in keeping with the health map;
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– assisting health and social centres; ensuring sanitary inspection 1n establishments that manufacture,
package, store and distribute food products as well as in plants that treat solid and liquid waste
produced by individuals or enterprise.
b) Social welfare:
– participating in the upkeep and management, where necessary, of social advancement and
reintegration centres;
– constructing, maintaining and managing public cemeteries;
– organizing and coordinating relief operations for needy persons.