Project Updates

LIGA is training students on patient rights

On Wednesday 15 October 2008 LIGA ran a training for students of the Olomouc Law School on the rights of patients. 14 students of law clinic participated on this 3-hour seminar. The students got known how to advice clients as well as how issues like informed consent, access to health documentation, compulsory vaccination or damage for medical malpractice are regulated.  Students are participating in so called Student Legal Consultancy and some of them will under supervision of LIGA lawyers solve problems of patients.

In the frame of the project “Fair Hospital” LIGA is improving access of patients to information about their rights and how to enforce them. LIGA is together with the Olomouc Law School expanding their activities to the Central Moravian region.