P.R. Laws tit. 24, § 3156
Any person in charge of a public or private health facility or any other entity where a birth takes place, or the physician in charge of a newborn, shall make the pertinent arrangements to take a blood sample from the newborn child within the term established in the Program’s regulations for the purpose of detecting those hereditary conditions included in said regulations by the Council.
The Department of Health shall promulgate whatever other rules and regulations that are compatible with this chapter and that are necessary to take blood samples from the newborn, or from other groups or individuals of other ages required by regulations, and their delivery to the laboratory, the handling of the results of those tests and the followup of positive cases for their adequate treatment and to the offering of genetic orientation in an ethical and professional manner.
The norms and regulations adopted under this chapter shall contain provisions to guarantee the confidentiality of the results of the laboratory or medical tests conducted and the privacy of the citizens subjected thereto.
History —July 2, 1987, No. 84, p. 318, § 6.