Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 13 May 2020
518. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the reason the health protection surveillance centre website section on notifiable diseases outlining the circumstances under which the disclosure of patient information is required by law including in circumstances (details supplied) is not available; and the further reason the link is not working. [4224/20]
View answerThe Minister for Health signed the Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 53 of 2020) on Thursday 20th February 2020 in order to make provision for Covid-19 to be added to the list of notifiable diseases so that the doctors who are at the frontline of our response to the virus will be obliged to notify the HSE when a case is suspected or diagnosed and will be able to take appropriate action to respond to the very serious public health threat posed by the Covid-19 virus.
Comprehensive information explaining the policies on infectious disease notifications is available on the website of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre at:
https://www.hpsc.ie/notifiablediseases/notifyinginfectiousdiseases/
