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Abstract

SUMMARY Today it is emphasized the importance of health as one of the greatest social and economic value. Therefore it is relevant to analyze how patients’ rights and the most fundamental of them is the right to qualified health care are realized and implemented. Qualified health care is realized as health care provided according approved health care norms, other law acts and is executed by persons having medical or other appropriate practice licences in health care establishments which have licence to provide health care services and civil liability insurance for harm to patients. Therefore it is in detail analyzed health care norms, medical personnel qualification, raising requirements for health care establishments and civil liability insurance of health care establishments for harm to patients. Elaborating the right to qualified health care such rights are distinguished: 1) discrimination of patient’s sex, age, race, nationality, nation, language, origin, social status, religion, sexual orientation or any other prohibitions of unsound circumstances by laws; 2) patient’s right to no derogating conditions of his honour and dignity and health care establishment personnel’s respectful behaviour providing services or he is dead; 3) right to particular information before leaving health care establishment or sending to another health care establishment; 4) right to scientifically based anaesthetic means; 5) financial benefit from the insurance of patient’s body or its parts and the prohibition to remove any patient’s body part not for patient’s health care purposes. Talking about the implementation of the right to qualified health care such problems as lack of health care services quality management, absence of adverse events in health care national level administration system, ignorance of patient’s rights and sophisticated protection system of patient’s infringed rights and existing paternalistic relation between medical personnel and patients, social justice in health politics, sponsorship of health system and rational distribution of resources, lack of medical personnel (especially in regions), chronic pain relief, payable blood donorship are distinguished and analyzed. At the end of the work conclusions are formulated and suggestions are provided.