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Amended Act Of Medical Treatment

Original Language Title: Grozījumi Ārstniecības likumā

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The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: the law on the amendments to the medical treatment Act to make (the Republic of Latvia Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 1997, no. 15; 1998, nr. 7) as follows: 1. Article 1: expressions of paragraph 3 as follows: "3) medical establishment — the meaning of this law: hospitals, rehabilitation institutions, hospitals, specialist centres, authorities, technical orthopaedics emergency medical institutions, doctorate (ambulance), medical centres, health points therapy, special offices, medical clinics, institutes of universities, as well as functional, morphological, biochemical, haematological, microbiological and other diagnostic examination, pathological and forensic examination laboratory, physician practice; ";
make paragraph 5 by the following: "5) hospital's certification, an independent third party, stating that the medical establishment, its departments or services provided conform to the relevant standard requirements;";
make paragraph 9 by the following: "9) medical technology — used in treatment methods, medical devices and medical goods;"
to supplement the article with points 18 and 19 by the following: "18) minimum requirements for medical institutions and their departments — requirements, which must ensure the medical institutions or their departments before they would be allowed to give medical assistance to patients;
19)-working residency contractual relationships with medical teaching hospital of the medical postgraduate training specialties acquisition in accordance with the approved educational program. "
2. in article 8: make paragraph 3 by the following: "3) confirms the therapeutic evaluation of service quality indicators;";
make point 7 by the following: "7) in collaboration with medical professional bodies of persons developing minimum requirements for medical institutions and project their departments;"
Add to article 8 and paragraph 9 by the following: ' 8) confirms the medical authorities and lists of treatment laid down in the order is entitled to carry out medical training;
9) provides the service of duration of treatment of foreign persons marketing concrete measures. "
3. To make article 9 the second paragraph as follows: "(2) a list of the work in which workers need knowledge of first aid, approved by the Cabinet of Ministers."
4. Supplement article 17 with the second and third subparagraphs by the following: "(2) in the first subparagraph of this article, determine the State guaranteed medical assistance is entitled to any child living in the territory of Latvia, also a child who does not have a personal code and who is not registered in the population register.
(3) the child is entitled to free State guaranteed medical assistance. "
5. Make the article 26 as follows: "article 26. Independently deal with the treatment of its competence allowed medical treatment to persons who are certified and registered in the law. "
6. Express article 27 the following: "article 27.  Medical specialties of the persons name, classification and distribution of the substantive field, apakšspecialitāt, and papildspecialitāt will be determined by the Ministry of welfare, but the medical treatment of persons regulations developed by the professional organisations of the parties and approved by the Ministry of welfare. "
7. Replace the words "article 28 is a specialist practice rights" with the words "have a certificate and established laws in the order".
8. Make the article 29 the following: ' article 29.  Professional practice the right to certify the medical certificate and the registration regulations. Medical certification of persons determined by the Cabinet of Ministers. "
9. Turn off the article 30.
10. Turn off the article 32.
11. Make 33, 34 and 35 of the article as follows: "article 33. Medical education trainees education programme can deal with only the direct result of certified treatment under the supervision of a person.
34. article. Medical equipment and medical product marketing, distribution, registration, operation and technical supervision procedures determined by the Cabinet of Ministers. Treatment Services Manager is directly responsible for the specific order of the medical institution.
35. article. Hospital's driver is called to legal liability if his body is used in medical technology, which has not been approved by the Ministry of welfare. "
12. off article 36, the words "and Welfare Ministry approved".
13. Express article 37 the introductory paragraph as follows: "the doctor is a medical person who obtained the highest medical education and physician with scientifically based medical activities directly or indirectly exposed to people and their professional activities".
14. off the last sentence of article 39.
15. Article 48 off the words "follow the prescriptions relating to his professional activities, as well."
16. Article 50: make the second part of paragraph 1 by the following: "1) other person of medical treatment objectives;"
make the third paragraph as follows: "(3) the Court, the Prosecutor's Office, the police, the State children's rights protection Inspectorate (Inspectorate), family courts (pagastties), as well as institutions made a statement, details of patients to be provided only after the written request, if the treatment is head of the signed permit."
17. Make 52 of article as follows: "article 52.  Treatment of persons regularly provide central administration of statistics in medical statistical information in accordance with the procedure laid down by law. "
18. Article 54 of the expression as follows: "article 54. (1) treatment can create State institutions, local authorities, natural or legal persons.
(2) the hospital's outpatient can be that patients do not need into a hospital, provides primary and secondary health care services, and the Hospital where patients that clock is in the permanent care of treatment, secondary and tertiary health care services to determine the therapeutic objective. "
19. the express article 55 and 56 by the following: ' article 55.  (1) treatment may engage only treatment services that meet medical institutions and their departments set out minimum requirements.
(2) the minimum requirements for medical institutions and their departments established by the Cabinet of Ministers. Medical institutions and their departments for conformity assessment shall be carried out by the Cabinet of Ministers authorised institutions.
Article 56.  (1) medical institutions and their departments certification is voluntary.
(2) medical institutions and their departments certification procedure determined by the Cabinet of Ministers.
(3) the medical authorities or the certificate in accordance with the Cabinet of Ministers established the health care funding arrangements give the relevant medical authority benefits by concluding contracts with the sickness. "
20. off article 57, the words "medical institutions".
21. Article 62 be expressed by the following: ' article 62. In cases where, in the context of alcoholic beverages or other products in the patient of inebriation will be made public in dangerous activities, systematically carried out administrative irregularities or with your actions endanger themselves, their closest relatives or society, statutory social and psychosocial rehabilitation of forced features, but minors — empowering nature of forced features. "
22. Replace article 63, the word "psychological" with the word "psychosocial".
23. Article 73 of the turn.
24. transitional provisions: exclude paragraph 3;
adding to the transitional provisions in paragraph 5 by the following: "5. The medical institutions and their departments made up to 30 June 2000, assessed according to the minimum requirements by 2001 December 31."
Transitional provisions with the entry into force of this Act shall terminate the constitutional order of article 81 of Cabinet of Ministers issued Regulation No. 427 "amendment to the law of treatment" (Latvian Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 2000, no. 2).
The law adopted by the Parliament in June 1, 2000.
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