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Wednesday, 8 May 2013
13th Sitting of the Health and Family Committee
At the sitting held on 8 May, the Health and Family Committee reviewed the Bill on Patients’ Rights and the Bill on Protection of Persons with Mental Health Problems, in principle.
The bills were elaborated by Minister of Health Slavica Djukic Dejanovic. She stated that the Bill on Patients’ Rights results from the need to regulate all the rights of patients uniformly, in a single law, as well as the obligation to harmonise Serbian laws with European legislation. Besides the rights regulated by the existing law, the Bill contains new rights guaranteed to the patients such as the right to preventive measures, right to patient safety, right to information, right to confidentiality of information about the patient’s health status, right to relief of suffering and pain and others.
The Bill on Protection of Persons with Mental Health Problems, the Minister explained, defines the rights of persons with mental health problems, treatment conditions and placement of said persons without consent in stationary and other institutions, as well as the limitation of rights of persons with mental health problems.
Following a debate on the proposed legislation, the Committee members decide to accept the Bill on Patients’ Rights and the Bill on Protection of Persons with Mental Health Problems, in principle.
In addition to the Committee members, the sitting was attended by representatives of the Serbian Health Council, Republic Health Insurance Fund, Serbian Medical Chamber, Serbian Medical Society, representatives of UNICEF and OSCE, the World Health Organisation Serbia Office in Belgrade and the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, Rodoljub Sabic. The Committee sitting was also attended by civic association representatives who discussed the bills with the Committee members, pointing out the flaws in the implementation of certain healthcare laws.
The sitting was chaired by Prof. Dr Dusan Milisavljevic, Committee Chairman.
Committees related to this activity
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9.00 - sitting of the Committee on Spatial Planning, Transport, Infrastructure and Telecommunications (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
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9.20 - press conference of the NEW DSS – POKS (NADA) Parliamentary Group (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)
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9.30 - sitting of the European Integration Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)
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9.30 - sitting of the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)
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10.00 - press conference of the Ecological Uprising Parliamentary Group (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)
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10.30 - sitting of the Foreign Affairs Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)
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12.00 - public hearing of the Culture and Information Committee on the topic: Public interview with the proposed candidates for Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media Council members (National Assembly Building, 14 Kralja Milana Street, Small Hall)
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15.00 - sitting of the Culture and Information Committee (National Assembly Building, 14 Kralja Milana Street, Small Hall)
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15.30 - the PFG with Italy, the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta meets with the Italian delegation to the Central European Initiative Parliamentary Dimension (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
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16.00 - the National Assembly Speaker meets with the Head of the EU Delegation to receive the EC Report on Serbia’s Progress in 2025 (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 1)
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16.20 - press statements on the delivered EC Report on Serbia’s Progress in 2025 (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)
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17.00 - press conference of the Green-Left Front – Don’t Let Belgrade D(r)own and Movement of Free Citizens (PSG) – Party of Democratic Action of Sandzak (SDA Sandzak) – Party for Democratic Action (PDD) parliamentary groups (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)