32.1-64 - Duty of Board to provide for treatment. - Virginia Statutes

§ 32.1-64. Duty of Board to provide for treatment.

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

(Code 1950, § 32-109; 1979, c. 711.)