                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DUTY OF PHYSICIAN, MIDWIFE OR NURSE NOTING OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM (§ 32.1-63)

It shall be the duty of any physician, midwife or nurse who notes ophthalmia
neonatorum within two weeks after the birth of an infant to perform or cause to
be performed such tests as are necessary to ascertain the cause of such
inflammation and to institute or have instituted appropriate therapy. When the
cause of such inflammation is ascertained to be gonococcus, such physician,
nurse or midwife shall report the infection to the local health director or the
Commissioner as provided in § 32.1-36.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 32-106; 1979, c. 711.