Covid-19: Patient from K Hospital (Hanoi) entered Ho Chi Minh City to make false statements to get medical examination

Recently, on the morning of May 13, the Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City informed about the case of a patient who had been to K Hospital but made an untruthful medical declaration.

According to Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital, at 7:30 a.m. on May 12, the patient named VPC (SN 1958) went with his family to the hospital (47 Nguyen Huy Luong, Binh Thanh District) to register for medical examination. The patient and family who made the medical declaration lived in Di An city, Binh Duong province and because the declaration had no symptoms, they were instructed to undergo medical examination at the Department of Examination according to the procedures of the Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital.

At 8 o'clock on the same day, the patient was invited to the examination room (2nd floor of the Department of Examination), to comply with the hospital's regulations (at the request of the Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City). The doctor carefully exploited the patient's information, especially in the epidemiological area, and discovered that this person was not in Di An as medical declaration, but lived in Khe Sanh town, Huong Hoa district, Quang Tri province. This patient was examined and treated at K Hospital with a diagnosis of nasopharyngeal cancer on April 24.

Immediately after, the patient and his wife and children were taken to the hospital's isolation area on the 1st floor of Area E by the Oncology Hospital of Ho Chi Minh City to take samples for Covid-19 testing and cancer treatment. The Covid-19 test results of the patient and his family were all negative.

In the face of complicated developments of the epidemic, the Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City requires patients and their relatives to make honest medical declarations to help medical facilities strictly comply with regulations to minimize the spread of disease. disease in hospitals.

Lawyer Nguyen Van Tien (Hanoi Bar Association) said that for those who do not make medical declarations, make crooked medical declarations, and conceal their travel schedule, which affects the tracing process, there is a risk of harm. may be administratively sanctioned from 10 to 20 million VND according to the provisions of Article 3, Clause 7 of Decree 117/2020.

If the above acts seriously affect the community, they may be criminally prosecuted according to the provisions of Article 240 of the 2015 Penal Code.

According to lawyer Tien, previously, the Supreme People's Court's Judicial Council also provided guidance on adjudicating crimes related to the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic.

Specifically, in the official dispatch guiding the application of the law to crimes related to the COVID-19 epidemic, stating:

In order to contribute to preventing the complicated increase of the COVID-19 epidemic in the present time, the Judicial Council of the Supreme People's Court guides the application of law and organizes trial for a number of violations. Common law violations have enough elements to constitute a crime in epidemic prevention and control.

Accordingly, the person who has been notified of the disease, the person suspected of having the disease or returning from the COVID-19 epidemic area who has been notified of isolation performs one of the following acts: fleeing the isolation place; failure to comply with regulations on isolation; refuse or evade the application of isolation or coercive isolation measures; Failure to make medical declarations, making incomplete declarations or making false declarations causing the transmission of COVID-19 to others is considered a case of performing "Other acts that spread dangerous diseases to people" according to regulations. at Point c, Clause 1, Article 240 and shall be handled for the crime of spreading infectious diseases to humans.

Persons who have not been identified with COVID-19 disease but live in an area where a decision on isolation or blockade has been made to perform one of the following acts: escape from the quarantined area or blockaded area; non-compliance with isolation regulations; refuse or evade the application of isolation or coercive isolation measures; Failure to make medical declarations, making incomplete declarations or making false declarations, causing damage of VND 100 million or more due to incurring costs for disease prevention and control will be handled for violations of regulations on safety in places of residence. crowded as prescribed in Article 295.

Lawyer Le Van Thiep (Hanoi Bar Association) also said that those who falsely declared and concealed their illnesses were "extremely dangerous". If they infect communities with many people with disease, old age, poor health, in conditions where epidemics develop. Their behavior is invisible which can lead to deadly consequences. Therefore, it needs to be dealt with as a deterrent.

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