Known as the Nicolás Law, it seeks to establish an annual malpractice statistic and to ensure that medical registrations are removed from the scope of tuition fees.
At the end of the year, loses parliamentary status -which implies that the project has to be discussed again in committees- an initiative that seeks to legally regulate medical malpractice cases. To the proposal, known as Nicholas Law, it subtracts the half sanction in the Senate: Relatives of victims ask that it be included in the agenda of extraordinary sessions.
A group of family members gathered at the National Congress requesting your vote before the end of the year. However, until now the extraordinary sessions were not made officialdespite the fact that its completion had been anticipated until December 27. Within the agenda planned by the presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni It was stipulated to discuss electoral, security and legislative reforms, but no mention was made of the Nicholas Law.
“We are going to ask President Milei to listen to our request and help us ensure that the law does not return to a clean slate.”. We have done immense work during these years, achieving consensus in all areas that allowed the project to be approved unanimously in Deputies and obtain opinions in the Senate also unanimously,” he indicated. Gabriela Covellia member of the family group, in a statement.
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Nicolás Law: what it is about
The Quality and Patient Safety Law bears the name of Nicholas Deanna, a young man from Villa Gesell who died at the age of 24 in 2017 when bacterial meningitis was not detected in time.
Before the replacement of the legislative body, on December 8, 2023, the initiative that obtained unanimous support: 149 affirmative votes and one abstention, from Ricardo López Murphy.
Among the reforms, the Nicholas Law contemplates that the medical tuition fees leave the scope of medical tuition fees and become dependent on the Ministry of Health; the constitution of an annual statistics of malpracticeerror reporting in the Argentine Integrated Health Information Systemthe computerization of medical records throughout the country and the mandatory nature of training processes and periodic verification of the professional aptitude of health teams.
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