RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE
As a result of the studies and analyzes carried out by the People's Advocate Office, it is found
that the situation in the field of respecting the right to health care has not registered positive
developments. The situation remains equally serious and requires increased attention from the state.
The field of health requires urgent and multisectoral intervention, from the creation of conditions
for the provision of medical services to an appropriate level of quality for patients, and to the
creation of adequate conditions for the work of staff working in the field of health.
Guaranteeing the right to health care, through the provisions of Article 36, the Constitution
establishes obligations for the state and imposes on the legislative authorities the mission to regulate
the main areas and aspects of the realization of the right in question.
This right is also found in Article 12 of the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, Article 25 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The right to
health protection and healthcare is also stipulated in Articles 11 and 13 of the Revised European
Social Charter.
The right to health is addressed today in the light of international provisions, focusing on
patient rights, which are stipulated in the European Charter of Patients' Rights, which includes 14
patient rights.
When the Republic of Moldova ratified the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine 54,
it once again undertook to "take appropriate measures to ensure equitable access to good quality
health services".
It is also worth mentioning the obligation of the state to ensure the right to the highest health
standard, which stipulates that all health services must be: available, accessible, acceptable and
qualitative.
Thus, the state must provide: a sufficient amount of medical services and medicines; physical
accessibility (financial and non-discriminatory for all vulnerable groups), information (the right to
request, receive and disseminate health information, including for persons with disabilities);
acceptability - which would take into account the cultural specifics of the patient, medical ethics;
quality services.
54
Law on the ratification of the Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, which
targets biomedical research no. 271 of 30.11.2012;
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