(a) The director of public health shall secure material for cultures, or specimens for bateriological or other laboratory examinations to assist in determining the diagnosis whenever in his judgment such procedure is necessary, and any person, when so requested by him or his authorized representative, shall permit such specimen to be taken.
The director of public health, or his representative, is hereby given authority to inspect all bacteriological or clinical laboratories in the city in which material from persons affected with communicable diseases is examined.
Whenever an examination for diagnosis by a laboratory or any person other than the physician in charge of the person from whom a laboratory specimen is taken discloses the existence of a case of communicable disease, the person in charge of the laboratory making the examination shall report all the facts, including the name and address of the patient, to the department of public health within 24 hours of the time diagnosis is made.
Persons in charge of laboratories shall make such reports to the department of public health as the director of public health may require.
(b) The director of public health, or his representatives, are hereby given authority to inspect all blood banks and blood transfusion services in the city (and blood banks and blood transfusion services in adjoining county towns whenever blood and blood derivatives are imported for use within the city limits) to determine compliance with current standards of blood banking and blood transfusion services established by the Division of Biologics Standards of the National Institutes of Health, the American Association of Blood Banks and the Dallas County Medical Society, and compliance with rules and regulations which might be adopted by the state department of health. The director of public health may require one or more experts in the field of blood banking to assist him, in an advisory capacity, in the inspection of any blood bank.
The director of public health shall be informed of existing and proposed blood banking and blood transfusion services within the community and shall offer rules and regulations for the location and construction of the blood bank, including plumbing, heating, refrigeration, lighting, ventilation, electrical services and all sanitary conditions and general hygiene which shall insure the conduct and operation of the blood bank in a manner which will protect the public health.
The organization of new blood banking and blood transfusion services and the modification of existing ones shall have, in the interest of public health and safety, the approval of the department of public health and of the Dallas County Medical Society (or the Dallas County Osteopathic Society if it pertains to an osteopathic institution). In order to secure such approval, blood banking and blood transfusion services shall have as responsible medical director a physician licensed by the state board of medical examiners. If any change occurs in the location, the licensed physician supervision or directorship of the blood bank, or upon the discovery of a reportable communicable disease or other condition injurious to the health, safety and welfare of the public, the director of such blood bank shall inform or report such occurrence to the director of public health within 48 hours. (Ord. Nos. 4404; 11452)