Section 12: Prison medical officers, etc.

(1) The functions of the medical officer of a prison shall be performed by such of the medical officers in the public service of the Federation or a State as may be directed by the Minister of Health with the concurrence, in the case of medical officers in the civil service of a State, of the State Authority.
(2) The Minister of Health, with the concurrence of the State Authority, may authorise a health superintendent or health sister (or the holder of any corresponding office) in the civil service of a State to attend to matters pertaining to general sanitation in a prison and otherwise to assist the medical officer thereof.