Question 103 · LEK · Mandatory hospitalization

When visiting a primary care unit, the patient is found to have symptoms indicative of a particularly dangerous and highly contagious disease. Under these circumstances, the decision to order compulsory quarantine of the patient is taken by:

A. state district sanitary inspector.
B. the unit’s manager.
C. the physician who examined the patient.
D. the director of infectious disease dept., who has been informed about a need for the patient’s quarantine.
E. infectious disease specialist who was called on for a consultation, in person or by phone.

Hint

With a suspected particularly dangerous, highly contagious disease, the decision must be immediate and taken by someone who has actually seen the patient.

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When visiting a primary care unit, the patient is found to have symptoms indicative of a particularly dangerous and highly contagious disease. Under these circumstances, the decision to order compulsory quarantine of the patient is taken by:

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