Please find a way to have a refined short main topic and a proposal related to Humanitarian aid – international cooperation combined with international humanitarian law legal issues. The framework and the main topic of the proposal should be drafted and contained within the following explained Terms of Reference.
Terms of Reference: Civil liability in medical missions
Whether due to emergency situations or a lack of specialized personnel or means, doctors or health personnel working in cooperation are often exposed to extreme situations in which they assume great responsibilities and even apply treatments outside of their particular speciality.
Most extramural missions or mobile health units conducted by humanitarian organizations are aimed at health promotion and prevention, including providing consultations, giving talks and referring cases that require further attention to a health centre.
But what happens when a situation is so urgent and serious that the health personnel do things that were not planned and that could definitely become problems of legal responsibility?
The professional ethical-deontological code, the Hippocratic Oath, has to be taken into account. In other words, while one has to think about the patient, one’s own personal safety also has to be considered if there are any problems
what happens if the intervention results in a complication?
what happens if a dentist is the only person available to do stitches?
Who bears the liability? The doctor? The humanitarian organization promoting the medical mission?
Does the insurance respond in such situations? And what if there is no insurance?
Do the doctors’ civil liability insurance policies have world coverage? And do they cover interventions outside of a doctor’s specialty?
Where are the professional limits? What is the right way to act?
If a complication emerges, should the emphasis be on thinking about the patient or the possible liability?