What are Your Legal Health Rights

Thoughts are numerous, but one of them is the right to health.

According to the national legislation, health is overall well-being. It is a priority for the state.

"Protecting citizens' health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being is a national priority and is guaranteed by the state ..."

The right to health is a human right. It is subject to both preventive and consequential protection if violated. Everyone has it since birth, we have equal access to it without discrimination. Each of us has the right to strive for this state of overall well-being and to use all possible (and legitimate) means to attain it. It is universal, guaranteed by a number of principles and rules binding on everyone involved in the provision of medical services. These principles and rules derive from international legal acts and national laws. Our right to health includes:

- Independent choice of place and way of obtaining health services;

- Free choice of doctor;

- Complete and correct information about the proposed treatment, possible alternatives, side effects or consequences of discontinuation of treatment;

-Accessible information presented in a comprehensible manner according to the peculiarities of the expert not providing the information, but to the person opposite the patient;

- Medical care of good quality, subject to confidentiality;

- Non-medical support during treatment - religious, psychological, other;

- Primary treatment, regardless of the change in the person providing it or the place where it is received;

- A new opinion, at each stage of treatment;

-Possibility to make a decision. Having all this information, everyone can make any decision about themselves, their health and treatment, accepting or rejecting therapy or medical intervention. For its part, the treating physician is obliged to inform the patient of his / her opinion on the possible consequences if he disagrees. But he cannot make a decision instead of a patient.

This is a profound meaning. They build a doctor-patient relationship. Moreover, when we know what is ahead of us, and in the name of what, when we are prepared for the consequences, we are able to mobilize and to grasp the adversities of each intervention more successfully. When we are patients, we are worrying. We depend on the professional and human qualities of the doctor against us and the quality of medical care. This dependence is much greater than we are willing to bear. It is here that the rules come to our aid and help us to restore our equity to the doctor and the medical staff. Clear information about what is happening to us, delivered in a good way, reduces our anxiety at this moment of trial.

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