1.To ensure better emergency treatment for workers, each Member State shall take the measures necessary to ensure that:
(a)one or more centres are designated to provide workers with free medical advice by radio;
(b)some of the doctors providing their services for the radio consultation centres have been trained in the special conditions prevailing on board ship.
2.In order to optimize the advice given, the radio consultation centres may keep personal medical records, with the agreement of the workers concerned.
Such records shall remain confidential.