The Department is hereby authorized to establish suitable detection and treatment programs directed toward the control of chronic diseases, including cancer, heart disease and stroke, diabetes and such other chronic diseases as may hereinafter be deemed capable of control through public screening, diagnostic or treatment programs.
(Prior code § 9-18; Amend Coun. J. 2-24-21, p. 27657, Art. I, § 1)
Editor's note – Formerly § 2-112-250. Coun. J. 2-24-21, p. 27657, Art. I, § 1, renumbered former § 2-112-240 as current § 2-112-220.