39. Every practitioner registered under this Decree shall have -
- the right to practice medicine or dentistry (as the case may be)
to the extent allowed under this Decree;
- the right to recover in any court, with full costs of suit, reasonable
charges for any medical, surgical or dental advice or attendance or for the
performance of any operation, or for any medicine or appliance which the
practitioner both prescribed and supplied;
- the right, subject to the provisions of any enactment, to prescribe and
store dangerous and restricted drugs;
- the right to sign a certificate or other document required by law to be
signed by practitioners.
- It shall be the duty of the Disciplinary Committee to hold an inquiry
into any disciplinary case referred to it under this Decree.
- The Disciplinary Committee, if satisfied on the facts that a disciplinary
case has been made out against a practitioner, may if it thinks fit
determine that any of the following disciplinary measurers be applied to
him, that is to say;
- Reprimanded the practitioner; or
- Suspend the practitioner from practice for such period as the
Committee may think fit.
It is the duty of the Disciplinary Committee to determine what action or course of conduct constitutes infamous
conduct in a professional respect in each disciplinary case before it.
