Patient Rights In Thailand - Legal provisions.

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Can you insist on copies of your medical files?

Can test medical information (e.g. HIV status) be disclosed to another person without the patient's consent?

Can terminally ill patients refuse life support?

All these questions and more information about patient right in Thailand:

English translation of the Health Act of 2550 (2007):

http://www.nationalhealth.or.th/Con_apil/ty.pdf

 

Although this Act established the right of patients to make a "Living Will" refusing treatment in advance (patients have always had the right to refuse treatment if they are able to make their wishes known), the Ministerial Regulations to set forth the procedure for making a legally binding Living Will have not yet been enacted although a draft was recently approved.