Since the Health care law is a newly emerging and less familiar for Georgia and also we do not have practitioner guide book for lawyers, “law, Media and Health” project is in process to prepare above mentioned book.
It is will be helpful for judges, prosecutors, lawyers and for every citizen for whom is interesting legal issues related health field.
For this reason project created working group. Team members are:
Nino Mirzikashvili – Head of International Relations Department from Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs ;
Maka Kvatchadze – Professor, Expert in International Law;
Kakha Aslanishvili – President of Georgian Bar Association;
Zaza Meishvili – Judge, Chair of Criminal Chamber of Supreme Court of Georgia
Aleksandre Imedashvili – Prosecutor;
Mamuka Djibuti – Dean of Public Health faculty.
On behalf of the Law and Health Initiative organized Salzburg Law and Health Seminar, to be held at the Schloss Arenberg Center for Arts and Sciences in Salzburg, Austria from February 10-16, 2008.
The Seminar bring together country teams from Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, and Ukraine for an interactive seminar focused on the development of a series of Practitioner Guides in Law and Health for lawyers working on patient rights cases.
Above mentioned participants and representatives from OSGF – Ms. Nina Kiknadze /Law, Media and Health Project Director/ and Ms. Tamar Kaldani /Role of Law and Public Administration Program Manager/ are participating of seminar.
There is an urgent need to support legal and administrative remedies for individual and systemic human rights abuse in health settings. To this end, the Practitioner Guides and a companion website will help guide lawyers interested in taking patient rights cases. These will be practical, how-to manuals, covering both litigation and alternative mechanisms such as ombudspersons and medical licensing bodies. They will examine patient and provider rights and responsibilities and procedural mechanisms at national, regional, and international levels.
