32.1-68 - Commissioner to establish screening program; review by Board; program to include education and post-screening counseling; laboratory tests. - Virginia Statutes

§ 32.1-68. Commissioner to establish screening program; review by Board;program to include education and post-screening counseling; laboratory tests.

A. The Commissioner, in cooperation with local health directors, shallestablish a voluntary program for the screening of individuals for thedisease of sickle cell anemia or the sickle cell trait and for such othergenetically related diseases and genetic traits and inborn errors ofmetabolism as the Board may deem necessary.

B. The Board shall review the program from time to time to determine theappropriate age and the method of screening for such conditions or traits inthe light of technological changes.

C. The screening program shall include provisions for education concerningthe nature and treatment of sickle cell anemia, other genetically relateddiseases and inborn errors of metabolism and a post-screening counselingprogram for the treatment of any person determined to have such a condition.

D. The program may include the provision of laboratory testing.

(Code 1950, §§ 32-112.21, 32-112.22; 1973, c. 212; 1979, c. 711.)