Treatment if patient has ingested or concealed thing—general
48 Treatment if patient has ingested or concealed thing—general
This section applies if the director-general suspects on reasonable grounds that a patient—
has ingested or inserted something in the patient’s body that may jeopardise the patient’s health or wellbeing; or
has a prohibited thing concealed in or on the patient’s body that may be used in a way that may pose a risk to the security or good order of the secure mental health facility.
The director-general must arrange for a doctor to—
examine the patient to determine whether the patient has ingested or inserted something in, or concealed a prohibited thing in or on, the patient’s body; and
if necessary—
administer the treatment the doctor considers appropriate or necessary to remove the thing; or
transfer the patient to another facility for treatment to remove the thing.
In this section:
health facility—see the Health Act 1993, section 6.
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