Draft Public Health Code published

The draft Code consists of general and special parts and includes 200 articles.

The general part consists of 5 chapters and includes:

•  basic rules;
•  public administration in the field of healthcare;
•  the healthcare system of Uzbekistan and its financing;
•  digital healthcare;
•  rights and obligations of healthcare subjects.

The special part consists of 16 chapters covering the following main areas:

•  features of the organization of public health protection;
•  prevention of infectious and non-infectious diseases;
•  general rules for the provision of medical care;
•  departmental medicine;
•  regulation of special relations in the field of healthcare;
•  providing medical care for major infectious and non-communicable diseases;
•  ensuring the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population;
•  donation and transplantation;
•  pharmaceutical activities, circulation of medicines and medical products;
•  educational and scientific activity in the field of public health;
•  personnel policy in the field of healthcare;
•  the status of medical and pharmaceutical workers;
•  final provisions.

Also, a list of legal documents of Uzbekistan was determined, which will lose their force in connection with the entry into force of the Code.