How are violations of regulations on medical examination and treatment handled criminally?

Article 315The Penal Code 2015 (amended and supplemented in 2017) stipulatestViolation of regulations on medical examination, treatment, production, preparation, dispensing, sale of drugs or other medical services, as follows:

1. Any person who violates the regulations on medical examination, treatment, production, preparation, dispensing, sale of drugs or other medical services in one of the following cases, if not in the case specified in Article 259 of this Code, shall be sentenced to imprisonment from 01 year to 05 years:

a) Causing death;

b) Causing harm to another person's health with a bodily injury rate of 61% or more;

c) Causing harm to the health of 02 or more people, with the total body injury rate of these people from 61% to 121%;

d) Causing property damage from VND 100,000,000 to under VND 500,000,000.

2. Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punishable by imprisonment from 03 years to 10 years:

a) Killing 02 people;

b) Causing harm to the health of two or more people, with the total body injury rate of these people ranging from 122% to 200%;

c) Causing property damage from VND 500,000,000 to under VND 1,500,000,000.

3. Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punishable by imprisonment from 07 years to 15 years:

a) Causing the death of 03 people or more;

b) Causing harm to the health of 03 or more people, with the total body injury rate of these people being 201% or more;

c) Causing property damage of VND 1,500,000,000 or more.

4. The offender may also be fined from VND 10,000,000 to VND 50,000,000, banned from holding positions, practicing a profession or doing certain jobs from 01 to 05 years.

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