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Prisoners excluded from new health care law. Ombudsman intervenes

MedExpress Team

Piotr Wójcik

Published April 6, 2023 12:36

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The Law on Health Care and Patient Safety did not cover entities providing health care services to persons deprived of liberty. The Ombudsman therefore has concerns about equal treatment, the right to health care and equal access to publicly funded health care services

- Is it planned to introduce a mechanism to establish for persons deprived of liberty an analogous level of health care protection as for other citizens, taking into account the specifics of providing services in penitentiary conditions? - asks the Ombudsman to Deputy Health Minister Waldemar Kraska and Deputy Director General of the Prison Service Colonel Krzysztof Stefanowski.

The Law on Quality in Health Care and Patient Safety passed by the Parliament introduces, among other things, mechanisms for assessing quality in health care and defines the concept of an adverse event. The ROP's doubts are raised by one of the law's articles, which excludes from the l...

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