Law of Georgia
About health care

Chapter I. General Provisions

Article 1

This law regulates the relations between the state authorities and the physical sister

Among the legal entities in the field of health care of citizens.

Article 2

Georgian legislation in the field of healthcare consists of the Constitution of Georgia,

International treaties and agreements, this law and other legislative and

From the by-laws.

Article 3

The concepts used, if there is no special reference in the law, have the following meaning:

A) Autonomy of the patient - the patient's right to independently determine medical for him

All issues of assistance;

B) HIV - human immunodeficiency virus;

C) Improper infections - infectious diseases against which there is no specific

Highly effective means of prevention;

D) Independent medical activity - higher medical education and independent

Professional of a person with a state certificate certifying the right to practice medicine

Activities for which he is responsible in accordance with the rules established by the legislation of Georgia;

D1) Independent nursing activities - professional of a person with relevant medical education

Activities for which he is responsible in accordance with the rules established by the legislation of Georgia;

E) Donor - a living person or a deceased person from whom the organ, part of the organs are taken,

Tissue for transplantation to another person or to treat another person;

F) Euthanasia - a patient suffering from an incurable disease, dying prematurely

Deliberate termination of life at his own request;

G) Endemic disease - with harmful factors acting on a certain area or

A disease caused by a deficiency of any factor necessary for health;

G1) Voucher - transferred to the target group by the state, reversible

A financial instrument of a materialized and / or immaterial form that

Designed to fund medical services or personal insurance;

H) Congenital disease - hypothyroidism, phenylketonuria, galactosemia or adrenogenital

Syndrome;

I) Particularly dangerous pathogens - the cause of those particularly dangerous infections, high

Transmitting biological agents and toxins that can cause severe harm

Public health and safety;

J) Informed consent - the consent of the patient or his relative or legal representative

To conduct the necessary medical intervention for the patient, for his health and for the life of this

K1) National Recommendation for Clinical Practice (Guideline) - Evidence-Based,

Management of clinical condition (nosology / syndrome) developed on the basis of medicine

Recommendation approved by an individual administrative-legal act

Which is characterized by alternating wakefulness and sleep and, at the same time, behavioral or head

Conscious actions characteristic of brain activity, environmental irritants.

N) Wrong medical action - inappropriate for the patient's condition by the doctor

Taking diagnostic and / or curative measures that have caused immediate harm;

N1) Recipient of Support - Parts 4 and 5 of Article 12 of the Civil Code of Georgia

Defined individuals;

O) Implied consent - a situation when a patient seeks medical attention

To obtain, and the latter, notwithstanding the existence of a written or verbal agreement,

Talk to him, taste it, and so on. From now on, the doctor is responsible for the law

Towards the patient;

P) Pathological-anatomical dissection - dissection of a corpse by a doctor with a proper certificate

To determine the cause of death and / or the diagnosis of the disease, for educational or scientific purposes;

Q) Patient - a person who, regardless of his health condition, benefits

With medical assistance;

R) a relative of the patient - a person who has the order established by the legislation of Georgia

According to him, he has the priority right to participate in the discovery of the patient's medical care

Or in resolving issues related to his death;

S) Primary health care - a separate person with the health care system and

The first touch of the family; Continuous, comprehensive and coordinated, primarily family

A medical system based on medicine, available to every member of society

Services that include health promotion, disease prevention, widely

Common measures for the treatment and rehabilitation of diseases, including maternal and

Child health care, family planning, palliative care are essential

Providing access to medicines;

T1) Emergency medical care - medical care without which it is inevitable

Death of the patient, disability or serious deterioration of health;

S2) Family doctor - a doctor-specialist, who in accordance with the rules established by the legislation of Georgia

The right to primary multidisciplinary medical care is granted to both sexes of all ages

The person;

T3) National Calendar of Prophylactic Vaccination - Infectious Diseases established by normative act

Age, timing, and prophylaxis of vaccination against diseases

rules;

T4) Palliative care - active, multidisciplinary care, the first of which

The task is to relieve pain and other pathological symptoms, socializing patients and

Psychological help, spiritual support. It applies to patients with the disease

No longer subject to treatment; With such care it is possible for the sick and their families

Improving quality of life;

T5) Palliative care - medical services that do not improve radically

The patient's condition, does not change the unfavorable prognosis and the purpose of the patient

Temporarily alleviate the condition;

T) resuscitation - a set of measures used to restore life;

U) Recipient - a patient for whom the donor is intended for transplantation

Organs, organs parts or tissues;

U1) Public health protection - a system of state obligations aimed at

Protecting, maintaining and restoring human physical and mental health

Prevention, study of their spread and, consequently, control, a healthy lifestyle

To promote the establishment of a safe environment for human health

By the way;

V) Particularly dangerous infections - caused by biological agents with high pathogenicity

Diseases that pose a particular risk to human and / or animal health;

W) Medical-biological research - any experiment on humans or animals,

Whose sole or one of the purposes is to enhance knowledge in the field of medicine;

K) Continuity of medical care - prophylactic, diagnostic, medical,

Uninterrupted implementation of rehabilitation and palliative care measures;

Y) Basic medical service package - a list of the volume of medical care,

Whose fee is paid by the state;

Z) Medical (medical) secret - professional by a doctor and other medical staff

In the process of activity the patient's physical, mental condition, his social