# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第六条の九 (Article 6-9) - Law: 医療法 (Medical Care Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二百五号 - English title "Medical Care Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第六条の九 (Article 6-9) — address `art-6-9` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-9 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第六条の九 art-6-9 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-9 **第一項** 国並びに都道府県、保健所を設置する市及び特別区は、医療の安全に関する情報の提供、研修の実施、意識の啓発その他の医療の安全の確保に関し必要な措置を講ずるよう努めなければならない。 art-6-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-9/par-1 The national government, prefectures, cities with public health centers and special wards of Tokyo must endeavor to undertake the necessary measures to ensure safety in medical care, including the provision of information on safety in medical care, training, and raising awareness on compliance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第六条の十三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-6-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-6-13/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 医療法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000205/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Care Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19