CHAPTER 16 ARTICLE 16 1. Every individual shall have the right to enjoy the best attainable state of physical and mental health. 2. States Parties to the present Charter shall take the necessary measures to protect the health of their people and to ensure that they receive medical attention when they are sick. 418. The State party endeavours to provide quality physical and mental health through the following measures: A. LEGISLATIVE MEASURES The Constitution 419. Article 112 (d) and (h) of the Constitution outline guidelines that Government has to follow in providing physical and mental health. These guidelines require the State to provide clean and safe water, adequate medical and health facilities, decent shelter for all persons and a clean and healthy environment for all. Public Health Act 420. The Public Health Act provides for the prevention and suppression of infectious diseases as follows: “9. (1) The provisions of this Act, unless otherwise expressed, shall, so far as they concern notifiable infectious diseases, apply to anthrax, blackwater fever, epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis or cerebro-spinal fever, asiatic cholera, diphtheria or membranous croup, dysentery, enteric or typhoid fever (including para-typhoid fever), erysipelas, glanders, leprosy, plague, acute anterior poliomyelitis, puerperal fever (including septicaemia, pyaemia, septic pelvic cellulitis or other serious septic condition occurring during the puerperal state), rabies, relapsing fever, scarlatina or scarlet fever, sleeping sickness or human 159