10.
Medical arrangements.
(1) Except in the case of an emergency, a child shall not be placed
with a foster parent unless he or she has been examined by a qualified
medical practitioner or such other medical personnel not below a rank
approved by the director of medical services, and the person examining the
child has reported in writing on the child’s physical and mental condition.
(2) In the case of an emergency, the examination report required
under subrule (1) of this rule shall be made within four weeks after the
placing.
(3) When a foster placement begins, the person placing the child with
the foster parent shall submit to the foster parent a list of immunisations
carried out in respect of the child and indicate to the foster parent the list of
other immunisations required to be effected in respect of the child in
accordance with the Ministry of Health’s schedule of immunisations, and the
foster parent shall ensure that those immunisations are carried out.
(4) The foster parent and the district probation and social welfare
office shall at all times keep a record of the immunisations in respect of the
child.
(5) Where the child placed with a foster parent is under five years of
age, the child shall be medically examined by a medical personnel referred
to in subrule (1) of this rule—
(a) within one month after the date of placement; and
(b) thereafter once every six months,
and the probation and social welfare officer concerned with the placement of
the child shall, so far as possible, assist the foster parent in ensuring the
carrying out of the requirements of this subrule.
(6) Where the child placed with the foster parent is above the age of
five years, the child shall be medically examined by the medical personnel
referred to in subrule (1) of this rule once in every year.
(7) The medical personnel who examines a child under subrule (5)
or (6) of this rule shall report in writing to the probation and social welfare
officer by whom the child was placed, or to the person in charge of the
district probation and social welfare officer, on the physical, mental and
emotional condition of the child as found by him or her.
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