Text file: 5996.txt
author: DavidS
downvotes: 0
end consideration date: 2014-07-30
id: '5996'
number comments: 16
number views: 4376
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response from the Ministry of Health\nArticle 43(2) of the Patients' Rights\
  \ Act stipulates that the patient shall be allowed to be present during a medical\
  \ procedure or medical care only:\n the health professionals or health care assistants\
  \ carrying out the medical intervention or health care, the persons whom the patient\
  \ wishes to be present, if this is feasible in the light of the nature of the medical\
  \ intervention or health care, the persons who, in the specific case, have the right\
  \ to consent to the medical intervention or health care, if the patient lacks the\
  \ capacity to make decisions for himself/herself, and, if this is feasible in the\
  \ light of the nature of the medical intervention or health care, other persons,\
  \ if so provided for by the law.\nThis provides a legal basis for the presence of\
  \ the father at the birth. There is no legal basis for charging the costs of the\
  \ father's presence at the birth. Public health institutions are regulated by internal\
  \ rules which define the prices of services on the market. According to the information\
  \ available to us, maternity hospitals charge material costs for the use of gowns,\
  \ slippers, masks, etc. As this is not regulated, it is also not prohibited and\
  \ is left to the individual public institutions, which also results in different\
  \ prices.\n "
response date: 2015-12-10
response due date: null
sent date: 2014-07-01
title: Father's presence at birth
upvotes: 42
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/5996
