Prevent perpetual health monitoring for businesses

The Health Minister's health regulations of May 4, 2022, made under the National Health Act, sought to introduce a new era of state intervention and health monitoring. Against the backdrop of Covid-19, the regulations aimed to make it possible for the state to use businesses as enforcers of state health policies in the long term. Businesses could be enlisted by the regulations as state monitoring agents to impose discriminatory health measures on their customers against their will. Sakeliga opposed the new health monitoring regime through litigation. Due to the pressure from Sakeliga and others’ litigation against the health regulations, the Minister subsequently revoked the most harmful parts of his May 4 regulations. The remaining regulations were never promulgated. The litigation protected businesses from being incorporated into a permanent regime of health monitoring, where businesses and other institutions would have had to enforce state-imposed medical prescriptions on their clients.