G-1.021 - Act respecting the governance of the health and social services system

Section 196 Disposition versions

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196. Under the immediate authority of the president and executive director, the medical and professional services director exercises the following functions:

(1)  coordinating the professional and scientific activity of the institution with the other directors;

(2)  taking all necessary measures to ensure that any examination, autopsy or expertise required under the Coroners Act (chapter C-68.01) is carried out;

(3)  fulfilling the obligations imposed by the Civil Code and the Public Curator Act (chapter C-81) regarding tutorships to a person of full age and protection mandates;

(4)  seeing to the development, by clinical department heads, of the modalities of a duty roster system ensuring, on a permanent basis, the availability of physicians, dentists and, where applicable, clinical biochemists, pharmacists and midwives, according to the needs of the institution;

(5)  developing rules governing the use of the resources allocated to clinical departments; and

(6)  carrying out any other function provided by law or entrusted to the medical and professional services director by the president and executive director.

2023, c. 34, s. 196.