2005 Idaho Code - 39-902 — REPORT TO HEALTH OFFICER -- WARNING OF DANGER -- TREATMENT OF INDIGENT CASES

                                  TITLE  39
                              HEALTH AND SAFETY
                                  CHAPTER 9
                      PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS AND OTHER
                       PREVENTABLE DISEASES IN INFANTS
    39-902.  REPORT TO HEALTH OFFICER -- WARNING OF DANGER -- TREATMENT OF
INDIGENT CASES. It shall be the duty of any physician, surgeon, obstetrician,
midwife, nurse, maternity home or hospital of any nature, parent, relative and
persons attendant on or assisting in any way whatsoever any infant, or the
mother of any infant at childbirth, or any time within two (2) weeks after
childbirth, knowing the condition hereinabove defined to exist, immediately to
report such fact in writing, to the local health officer of the county, city,
town, magisterial district or whatever other political division there may be
within which the infant or the mother of any infant may reside. Midwives shall
immediately report conditions to some qualified practitioner of medicine and
thereupon withdraw from the case except as they may act under the physician's
instructions. On receipt of such report, the health officer, or the physician
notified by a midwife, shall immediately give to the parents or persons having
charge of such infant a warning of the dangers to the eye or eyes of said
infant, and shall for indigent cases provide the necessary treatment at the
expense of said county, city, or town.