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To refuse to fill out additional documents and choose another simplified model for patient consent, he will present to the Seimas on Thursday a draft amendment to the Law on the rights of patients and compensation for damages to health.
Following a change in legislation, a patient who has been voluntarily vaccinated at a health care facility or other vaccination site against a communicable disease causing a pandemic emergency and / or quarantine will be considered informed and consents to be vaccinated.
“In other words, no written consent would be required, consent would be expressed by the very fact of arrival,” say A. Veryga and Agnė Širinskienė, members of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union faction who prepared the draft. .
It is also proposed that this be possible if the patient is provided with all the necessary information during their stay or visit to the institution, and if the staff of this institution answer all the patient’s questions related to this information.
The necessary information would include information on the nature, nature, objectives, objectives, known and possible complications (adverse effects) of vaccination against a contagious pandemic disease for which a state emergency and / or quarantine has been declared, other circumstances that may affect the patient’s decision to accept or refuse vaccination, as well as the possible consequences of refusing it.
The procedure for providing such information would be established by the Minister of Health.
Seimas members A. Veryga and A. Širinskienė, who started and prepared the project, say that currently, informed consent for vaccination against COVID-19 is obtained in the usual way, which is not adapted to the situation. pandemic, which means additional time to complete documents.
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