National Health Act, 2003 (Act No. 61 of 2003)

Regulations

Regulations relating to the Surveillance and the Control of Notifiable Medical Conditions, 2017

Annexures

Annexure A

Table 4 : List of category 4 notifiable medical conditions
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Category 4 notifiable medical conditions to be notified through a written or electronic notification to the Department of Health within 1 month of diagnosis by private and public health laboratories

 

Notifiable medical condition

Pathogen/s to notify

1.

Health care-associated infections or multi drug-resistant organisms of public health importance*
•Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae
•Vancomycin-resistant enterococci
•Staphylococcus aureus: hGISA and GISA
•Colistin-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa
•Colistin-resistant Achinetobacter baumanil
•Clostridium difficile

 

*Health care-associated infection means an infection occurring in a patient during the process of care in a health establishment which was not present or incubating at the time of admission.

 

[Annexure A(Table 4)(Category 4) substituted  by Notice No. 3007, GG47983, dated 3 February 2023]