Moral Fundamentals of Human Life Protection and the Population’s Right of Health

Autori:

Cristina OTOVESCU, Adrian OTOVESCU

Cod: ISSN: 1583-3410 (print), ISSN: 1584-5397 (electronic)
Dimensiuni: pp. 228-242

How to cite this article:

Otovescu, C., Otovescu, A. (2017). Moral Fundamentals of Human Life Protection and the Population’s Right of Health. . Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala, 57, 228-242.

Abstract:

The protection of the human life has become an imperative social problem in Romania, as a consequence of the fact that 1 in 4 citizens, or, more precisely, 23.40% of our country’s population, suffers from a chronic disease or a long time deficiency in their health condition. Thus, we have considered that the issue can be regarded from the perspective of the moral values and the principles of bioethics, from that of the legal norms and the results of a field sociological research. There are evidenced normative documents that provide the legal framework for the functioning of the health system in general, at the European and national level, and we explained the gap between the rule of law and the present state of the health care system in Romania. We have used the results of a field research conducted on a sample of 1,000 people in Craiova and Drobeta Turnu-Severin, stating that over 20% of the population of these cities suffers from certain diseases. There were rendered valuable the results of a field research, made on a sample of 1,000 people, from the cities of Craiova and Dr. Turnu-Severin, which attest that over 22% of the population from Craiova, and over 30% of the population from Dr. Turnu-Severin suffers from specific diseases, including some serious ones (almost 3%). Systematically, we analyzed the deficiencies of the Romanian health system. Due to this fact, over 120 seriously ill patients sued the Romanian state because it violates the right to treatment, diminishing their chances of saving their lives. In the final part of the article we showed, synthetically, a number of solutions and proposals for making up a national health system, effective in Romania, taking into account the specific requirements of patients and the associations that represent them. Simultaneously, we stressed the need for the education of citizens in matters of law, enjoying the rights to health protection in the area of EU countries, laws, which they do not know.