EU PROJECT PRESENTS TRAINING COURSE ON PATIENTS' RIGHTS
On 28 January in Minsk the EU-funded project "Promoting Patients' Rights in Belarus" organized a seminar on legal and ethical aspects in the healthcare system in Belarus. Attended by representatives of medical schools, non-governmental organizations working on patients' rights protection and media, the seminar included a presentation of a new set of educational materials on patients' rights.
The issues of patients' rights have rarely been discussed beyond professional medical circles in Belarus. One of the objectives of this EU project is to provide a number of discussion forums, such as this seminar, in order to raise public awareness of patients' rights, strengthen civil society's role in their protection, and consolidate efforts of governmental and non-governmental entities in improving the situation in this area. The educational materials developed by the project are aimed at filling the gap in the medical training in Belarus. The training course can be easily adapted and included in existing curricula at higher and vocational medical educational institutions. The project team will continue its work to include the course on patients' rights in the educational process in Belarus. The project on patients' rights is implemented by the European House organization from Denmark in partnership with the Minsk-based Centre for Social Innovations.
