Currently, the right to health is also approached in the light of international provisions, emphasizing patient rights, which are stipulated in the European Charter of Patients' Rights, which includes 14 patient rights. These rights are important in the relationship between citizens and their health care system. From a legal point of view, patient rights are defined in the legislation of the Republic of Moldova as rights derived from fundamental human rights to life and health, which include social rights related to accessibility, quality and equity in obtaining medical care, as well as individual rights related to the respect of the patient as a human being, of his dignity and integrity, achieved within the use of health services. It is also important to note that by ratifying the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, the Republic of Moldova has once again committed itself "to take appropriate measures to ensure equitable access to good quality health services". The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states in Article 25 that everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services. To these are added, according to the previously referred rule, the right to insurance in case of unemployment, illness, disability, widowhood and old age, or in other cases of loss of means of subsistence, due to causes beyond his control (paragraph (1)). According to the same Art.25, the mother and the child enjoy a special protection (paragraph (1)) sentence 1), and children enjoy the same rights, regardless of whether they come from marriages or outside them (paragraph (1) sentence 2). Also, Art.8 of the international document recognizes the right of any person to an effective satisfaction from the competent national courts, if he is prejudiced by acts that violate his fundamental rights (including the right to health care - s.n.) recognized by constitution or law. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has a special role in specifying the right to health of the child, which specifies in the text of Art. 24 the obligation of the state to ensure “the right to health and to access to health and medical services with special emphasis on primary and preventive health care, public health education and the reduction of infant mortality. The State also has an obligation to take measures to abolish harmful traditional practices."150. The Children's Ombudsman interprets the child's right to health, as defined in Article 24, as an inclusive right, extending not only to timely and appropriate prevention, health promotion, the 150 https://drepturilecopilului.md/files/publications/CDC_2005_final.pdf 83