Nevada Code § 442.040

Report of existence of ophthalmia neonatorum to be made to local health officer; duties of health officer or physician to whom report is made
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1. Any physician, midwife, nurse,
freestanding birthing center or hospital of any nature, parent, relative or
person attending or assisting in any way any infant, or the person who gave
birth to any infant, at childbirth, or any time within 2 weeks after
childbirth, knowing the condition defined in NRS
442.030 to exist, shall immediately report such fact in writing to the
local health officer of the county, city or other political subdivision within
which the infant or the person who gave birth to any infant may reside.
2. Midwives shall immediately report
conditions to some qualified practitioner of medicine and thereupon withdraw
from the case except as they may act under the physicians instructions.
3. 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 the infant, and shall, for indigent cases, provide the necessary
treatment at the expense of the county, city or other political subdivision.

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