SECTION 99

(1) The medical and health service shall be under the responsibility of medical doctors who shall be recruited preferably from among practitioners holding diplomas in industrial medicine and who shall be assisted by qualified paramedical personnel. (2) All persons so employed shall have been previously approved by a decision of the minister in charge of labour issued after consultation with the Minister of Public Health, in case of paramedical personnel, consultation with the medical association, in case of doctors. Approval requirements shall be fixed by joint order of the minister in charge of labour and the minister in charge of public health. (3) According to the size and nature of the establishment, its location and the medical infrastructure available, the medical and health service shall be organized : • (a) Either in the form of a separate service within the establishment concerned, or in the form of a joint service for several establishments ; • (b) Or on the basis of an agreement made with a public or private hospital. (4) The procedure for the setting up, organization and functioning of medical and health services as well as the number and the qualifications of the medical and paramedical personnel to be employed in each establishment, having regard to local conditions and to the number of workers and of workers' dependents, shall be determined by order of the Minister in charge of Labour issued after consultation with the National Commission for Industrial Hygiene and Safety.