EMC: Intended amendments to the Law on Health Care contain risks of violation of human rights
Tbilisi. Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC) responds to planned amendments to the Law on Public Health and considers that the presented bill contains direct and obvious risks of gross violation of human rights.
“Turning the initiative into law gives relevant bodies of the executive government the authority to take almost the same measures in the ordinary situation, which they have been able to do only in a state of emergency. The current version of the Law on Public Health has a lot of gaps and it certainly needs to be corrected, but not in the way of consolidating uncontrollable authority of the executive government at the legislative level. The presented initiative normalizes the state of emergency and, in fact, gives unlimited authority to the executive government, as the bill does not envisage even minimal parliamentary or judicial control over the decision-making process related to above mentioned issues”, - is noted in the statement of the organization.
Source: emc.org.ge
