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Rights regarding the Medical File| LITHUANIA
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| 1. The right of the patient to a medical file is formulated in terms of an obligation for the healthcare providers both in the Civil Code and in the Law on the Rights of Patients. 2. Lithuanian law does not require any mediation or involvement of any professional to get access to medical records. The patient has the right of direct access to all documents. Also in this case a therapeutic exception might be invoked: “with the exception of the cases when this may be harmful to the patient’s health or even endanger his life. In the said instances, the restrictions on the provision of information shall be noted in the medical documents of the patient”. 3. A patient has the right to request that copies of his medical documents be made against payment of the cost of it. 4. With regard to the destruction of a medical file at the request of the patient, the Civil Code provides that a provider of personal healthcare services has to destroy the medical file within a period of three months after the destruction is requested by the patient, with the exception of derogations established by the relevant laws. |