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Easy, it should have to be signed off by the exiting players Club doctor, and the AFL doctor rostered for the Umpires, after both diagnosing the injury/illness, prior to the Emergency player being activated.
Not sure an AFL game can have a week break in the middle of it while doctors wait for scan and test results. You bring in a law, players / clubs will learn how to exploit it. If you can only use a sub if someone is hospitalized, then teams will shuttle someone off to hospital with some kind of hard to diagnose injury every week. You expect a doctor to gamble with their livelihood that a player is faking an injury on the back of a very short time frame to test?
If you want to have coverage for injuries, just have a bench with substitutes on it. No interchange, just like normal football, once you're off, you're off. If a coach / manager uses their subs early and then further injuries occur, tough.