(a) The Commissioner of Public Health shall: (1) Recommend minimum criteria for dialysis facilities and transplantation centers; (2) recommend medical criteria for eligibility of kidney disease patients for any available state assistance; (3) recommend programs of detection, prevention and public education concerning kidney disease; (4) recommend research into problems associated with kidney disease; (5) review all existing medical and social programs related to kidney disease to assure that all patients shall receive, with a minimum of duplication of financial and physical resources, the best possible health care.
(b) In the performance of his duties, the Commissioner of Public Health may order the preparation of books, reports and records and may pay for the expert advisors and assistants for making his studies and formulating his recommendations from funds made available by the Department of Public Health from the appropriation to said Department of Public Health.