Prevention and Health Division

This division includes:

• Public Hygiene Service
• Forensic Medicine Service
• Social Medicine Service

Public Hygiene Service

Food hygiene:

• inspecting food premises;
• health checks on food premises staff;
• inspecting foodstuffs and water quality;
• taking part in health investigations with the Health Delegation in cases of food poisoning.

Housing and public buildings hygiene:

• handling nuisance complaints relating to housing and public buildings;
• giving opinions on licence applications for commercial premises;
• giving opinions on building and occupancy permit applications.

Disease vector control.

Forensic Medicine Service

Its duties:

• certifying deaths;
• issuing burial permits;
• compiling death statistics and keeping the death register up to date;
• carrying out forensic examinations and autopsies.

Social Medicine Service

Its duties:

• providing medical follow-up for municipal staff and agents;
• running the rabies treatment centre;
• taking preventive measures against rabies;
• taking part in mass vaccination campaigns at the request of the Health Delegation.