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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="18-308" title_number="18" title_name="Disease Prevention" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Specific Diseases">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Immediately after the birth of a child, the attending physician or attending nurse midwife shall use in the eyes of the child a prophylactic, approved by the Department, against gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>If, within 2 weeks after the birth of a child, an eye of the child becomes inflamed or swollen:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The attending physician shall test to determine if gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum is the cause of the inflammation or swelling; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If there is no attending physician, any other individual who has care of the child shall report the condition immediately to a physician or to the health officer for the county where the child is located, so that testing may be done.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Within 48 hours after a physician knows that a child under the physician’s care has gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum, the physician shall submit a report to the Department.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>An individual other than a physician may not treat the inflammation or swelling.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>A person who violates any provision of subsection (b)(2) or (d) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $100 or imprisonment not exceeding 6 months or both.</text>
  </level>
</section>
