Don't give freedom to your fists!

June 11, 2020

Statistics show that conflicts between citizens often arise during shared alcohol consumption or when individuals are intoxicated. Verbal altercations frequently escalate into mutual physical assault, resulting in one of the "conflict participants," who has suffered the most from the opponent's unlawful actions, requiring qualified medical assistance.

Statistics show that conflicts between citizens often arise during shared alcohol consumption or when individuals are intoxicated. Verbal altercations frequently escalate into mutual physical assault, resulting in one of the "conflict participants," who has suffered the most from the opponent's unlawful actions, requiring qualified medical assistance.

Due to the inpatient treatment of individuals who have sustained bodily injuries, healthcare institutions often incur significant damages that could have been avoided if the conflict had been resolved peacefully.

The legislator, in Article 933 of the Civil Code of the Republic of Belarus, established the following norm: damage caused to the property of a legal entity shall be fully compensated by the person who caused the damage.

In accordance with Article 64 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus "On Healthcare," legal entities and individuals, including individual entrepreneurs, who have caused harm to the health of citizens of the Republic of Belarus, foreign citizens, and stateless persons through their unlawful actions, as well as in other cases provided for by legislative acts of the Republic of Belarus, shall reimburse healthcare organizations, other organizations, and individual entrepreneurs for the costs of providing medical care to the victims.

Thus, since healthcare institutions bear the costs of compensating for the damage directly caused by the unlawful actions of the perpetrator, such treatment costs are subject to reimbursement by the latter.

In this regard, for the past period of 2018, the district prosecutor's office filed 6 lawsuits in court in the interests of healthcare institutions for a total amount of 2322.89 rubles to recover funds from the "perpetrators of harm,"

spent on the treatment of victims, including in the interests of the healthcare institution "Glubokoye Central District Hospital", 5 claims were filed, and in the interests of the healthcare institution "Vitebsk Regional Clinical Hospital" – 1 claim. To date, the district court has considered and satisfied 3 claims for a total amount of 975 rubles 18 kopecks.

Those who "raise their hands" should be aware that in addition to possible criminal liability for causing bodily harm of varying severity, the court may recover from them, in the interests of healthcare institutions, the costs of providing medical care to the victims.

 

Assistant Prosecutor of Glubokoye District

2nd class lawyer T.M. Kastrukhina