Deputies of Tajikistan’s lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of parliament (Majlisi Oli) have unanimously voted for amendments proposed by the government to the country’s Penal Code. The amendments, in particular, provide for toughening punishment for medical negligence.
A regular sitting of the Majlisi Namoyandagon, presided over by it head, Shukurjon Zuhurov, was held on December 5.
Presenting the bill to lawmakers, the Minister of Health and Social Protection, Nasim Olimzoda, noted that amendments proposed to Article 129 of Tajikistan’s Peal Code stipulate that “careless attitude of a doctor to a patient causing harm to a patient will be punishable by up to eight year in jail.”
“Currently, they face up to five years in prison for this,” the minister added.
Besides, the amendments stipulate that violation of sanitary-epidemiological safety rules by medical workers, employees of beauty salons and hairdressing salons entailing mass disease or mass poisoning of people by negligence will be punishable by up to ten years in jail against the current five years.
Illegal private medical or pharmaceutical practice will be punishable by up to twelve years in prison against the current eight years.
