Оbstruction of the Provision of Medical Care in the System of Criminal Law

Relevance. The article is devoted to the study of the novel of the domestic criminal law providing for liability for obstruction of medical care (Article 124.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hereinafter – the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation)), which exhausts the relevance of this article.
The purpose is to characterize the place and role of this norm in the system of existing criminal law norms aimed at protecting social relations arising in connection with the implementation of the subjective right to provide medical care.
Objectives: to highlight the norms of the domestic criminal law that protect social relations arising in connection with the realization by a person of the right to medical care; identify common features characteristic of these norms; define the features of art. 124.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation as a component of such a system of norms.
Methodology. The methodological basis of the research is made up of general scientific and particular scientific methods of cognition: formal-logical, systemic, comparative-legal.
Results. In the course of the study, an assessment of the current criminal law norms was made for their focus on the protection of public relations that are harmed as a result of violation of the subjective right to medical care. The characteristic of the place and role of Article 124.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in the system of these norms is given.
Conclusions. Based on the results of the study, it was concluded that the subjective right to medical care, despite its constitutional guarantee, is not itself protected by the domestic criminal law, the relevant norms are aimed at protecting the life and health of the patient who is harmed as a result of violation of such a right. The composition of the crime, enshrined in the provisions of art. 124.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which is part of the system of these norms, has its own fundamental features.

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