Prohibited acts in medical examination and treatment activities in Vietnam

According to Law on Medical Examination and Treatment 2023 Prohibited acts in medical examination and treatment activities include 21 prohibited acts, as follows:

1. Violating the patient's rights.

2. Refusing or intentionally delaying first aid to the patient, except in cases where the practitioner is allowed to refuse medical examination and treatment according to the law.

3. Medical examination and treatment without meeting the conditions.

4. Medical examination and treatment not within the scope of practice or scope of activities permitted by a competent authority, except in cases of emergency or performing medical examination and treatment as mobilized by a competent authority. authority when a natural disaster, disaster, group A infectious disease epidemic or emergency occurs.

5. Practicing medical examination and treatment outside the time and place registered to practice medical examination and treatment (hereinafter referred to as practice registration), except in cases where according to the law the practitioner is allowed to conduct medical examination , medical treatment without having to register to practice.

6. Failure to comply with regulations on technical expertise; Applying specialized methods and techniques, using medical equipment that has not been authorized by a competent authority.

7. Prescribing or indicating the use of drugs that have not been licensed for circulation according to the provisions of pharmacy law in medical examination and treatment.

8. There are acts of harassment in medical examination and treatment.

9. Prescribing drugs, ordering technical services and medical equipment, suggesting that patients be transferred to other medical examination and treatment facilities, or engaging in other acts for personal gain.

10. Erasing or modifying medical records to falsify information about medical examination and treatment or creating fake medical records or creating false medical records and other documents about medical examination and treatment results .

11. Practitioners who sell drugs in any form, except in the following cases:

a) Traditional medicine doctors, traditional medicine doctors, traditional medicine doctors;

b) A person who has a family medicine recipe sells medicine according to the family medicine recipe under his or her ownership and has been registered.

12. Using wine, beer and other alcoholic beverages, drugs, and cigarettes at medical examination and treatment facilities or during medical examination and treatment.

13. Using superstition in medical examination and treatment.

14. Refuse to participate in medical examination and treatment activities when there is a natural disaster, disaster, group A infectious disease epidemic or emergency situation according to mobilization decisions of competent agencies and persons. Except for the following 2 cases:

- Emergency activities outside medical examination and treatment facilities, except for outside hospital emergency medical staff;

- Mobilized or dispatched by competent agencies or persons to participate in medical examination and treatment activities in the event of a natural disaster, disaster, group A infectious disease epidemic or emergency situation;

15. Medical examination and treatment facilities provide medical examination and treatment services when falling into one of the following cases:

- No operating license;

- During the period of suspension of operations;

- Not within the allowed scope of professional activities, except in cases of emergency or performing medical examination and treatment according to mobilization decisions of competent agencies and people when natural disasters or disasters occur. Group A infectious disease epidemic or emergency situation.

16. Rent, borrow, lease, lend a professional license or operating license.

17. Taking advantage of the practitioner's image and status to speak, propagate, and encourage patients to use unrecognized medical examination and treatment methods.

18. Infringing on the life, health, insulting the honor and dignity of practitioners and other people working at medical examination and treatment facilities or destroying or destroying property of medical examination and treatment establishments .

19. Prevent patients subject to compulsory medical treatment from entering medical examination and treatment facilities or intentionally perform compulsory medical treatment on people who are not subject to compulsory medical treatment.

20. Advertising beyond the scope of practice or beyond the scope of professional activities approved by a competent authority; taking advantage of medical knowledge to falsely advertise medical examination and treatment.

21. Posting attributive information about the responsibilities of practitioners and medical examination and treatment facilities when a medical incident occurs without a conclusion from a competent authority.