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Article 22 Respect for Privacy

244. The Law on Health Care (LHC) prescribes the right to secrecy of data. The data contained in medical documentation belong to personal data about a patient and present an official secret.

245. The Law on Personal Data Protection 50 (LPDP) provides protection of personal data to any natural person, regardless of his/her personal capacity (Article 1). The provider, in accordance with the Law on Personal Data Protection, shall be obliged to issue to a person with disability a copy of the data in an understandable form. An illiterate person, a person with disability, namely a person unable to make a request for accomplishment of some right in writing, due to his/her physical or other deficiency, may declare such a request verbally on the grounds of relative minutes.

Note #50
Official Gazette of RS, Nos. 97/08 and 104/2009
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246. In accordance with the Law on Personal Data Protection, a person with disability may request to make a review of the data outside the official premises of the provider, if such premises do not have an adequate access. The provider shall be obliged to enable a person with disability to accomplish a review of the data in the manner to be selected by the person concerned. Also, a person not able to review the document containing the required information without an attendant shall do it with the assistance of an attendant.

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