Damage caused by the activity of public medical facilities

Document Type : Original Article

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Faculty of Law - Mansoura University

Abstract

Public medical facilities contribute to providing medical services to members of the community, but these services may result in material, moral or physical damage to the treating person (the patient), which requires reparation for the harm, whether for the patient or his family, and not every harm attributable to medical facilities can be considered compensable. Rather, it must fulfill a set of conditions, whether on the basis of error or without error, the damage must be realized, and it must have breached a position protected by law, and it must be an extraordinary private, and it included the Egyptian Civil Law No. (131) of 1948 as well as the civil law Iraqi No. (40) for the year 1951 methods of compensation for the injured in the activities of public medical facilities.

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