The use of video recording devices in functional, diagnostic cabinets, intervention rooms, hospital rooms, bathrooms and toilets of organizations providing medical care and service will be prohibited.
The Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Health Care Lusine Badalyan said this.
The package of draft laws authored by the deputies Narek Zeynalyan, Lusine Badalyan and Hrachya Hakobyan on Making Addendum to the Law on Medical Assistance and Services to the Population and on Making Addendum to the RA Code on Administrative Offenses was debated at the sitting the RA NA Standing Committee on Health Care on September 7.
According to the proposed addenda, in case of using video recording devices, the organizations providing medical care and service must place awareness signs in the visible parts of their organization’s premises. They should be placed so that they are visible before entering the video surveillance area. Data obtained as a result of the use of video cameras will be provided in accordance with the law. According to Lusine Badalyan, many complaints have been received regarding the installation of cameras in hospitals. “Basically, the matter was not settled at all. The necessity to adopt the law stems from the need to maintain medical secrecy during the provision of medical services, to exclude problems regarding violations of human rights,” the Committee Chair Narek Zeynalyan said.
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The draft was endorsed.
National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia
