The plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies adopted, on Monday, a bill according to which insured persons have the right to medical services for pain therapy.

The object of the draft law is to establish the insured’s right to medical services for pain management, respectively the set of medical services for diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of patients of all ages, children or adults, with acute or chronic pain, with the aim of improving the quality of their lives by controlling or removing pain.

According to the normative act, pain is „the unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated or seeming to be associated with an actual or potential tissue injury”.

Medical services for pain therapy are defined in this project as „the set of medical services for diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of patients of all ages, children or adults, with acute or chronic pain, with the aim of improving their quality of life by controlling or removing pain”.

„The insured have the right to medical services for the cure of the disease, for the prevention of its complications, for the recovery after the disease and for the therapy of pain. In the case of the insured who benefit from the medical services for the therapy of pain, the management of pain is carried out within the framework of evidence-based medicine, in a manner integrated and interdisciplinary, based on medical practice guidelines, national medical practice protocols, operational medical practice protocols or therapeutic protocols,” the draft states.

The draft law was also adopted by the Senate, and the Chamber of Deputies is the decision-making body in this case.

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