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HMPA: The amendment to the Criminal Code will hit doctors

MedExpress Team

Medexpress

Published March 23, 2022 08:51

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Proposal to amend the content of Art. 155 of the Polish Penal Code, providing for tightening of penalties for "manslaughter" from the previous sentence of 3 months to 5 years imprisonment to 6 months to 8 years imprisonment will also result in tightening penalties for doctors for medical errors - alerts HRM .

OZZL publishes a position on the draft amendment to the Penal Code, especially in the field of art. 155, which is currently under consideration in the Sejm. The union reminds that an attempt to tighten penalties under Art. 155 KK already took place in 2020. At that time, HRM asked the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Health to undertake urgent work aimed at separate treatment of medical errors and their consequences by the provisions of the CC - so that they would not be covered by the provisions on "inadvertent causing death "(Article 155 of the Penal Code). In the assessment of HRM, one should distinguish between actions carried out by well-int...

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