Section 3: Application to the armed forces health service

For the application of the provisions of this chapter, army hospitals shall be considered as public health establishments. For the medical biology analysis laboratories in these hospitals, the Minister for Defence exercises the powers of the regional health agency. The practitioners who carry out the analyses mentioned in 1° and 2° of Article R. 1131-2 in these hospitals are approved by the Director General of the Agence de la biomédecine…