Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection has organized the promotion of the publication ''Whistleblower Protection" in the Media Center in Belgrade, today. This is the first publication dedicated to the protection of whistleblowers published in the Serbian language.
Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection has sent a letter to the Ministry of Health indicating the obligation of the Ministry regarding the implementation of the Law on the Exercise of the Right to Health Care by Children and Pregnant Women.
The Commissioner deems that public statements of managers and representatives of some medical institutions, including individual physicians, indicate possible misunderstanding of the content of the Law, in particular the obligations under Article 5 relating to the notification of the National Fund of abortions and stillbirths.
In connection with the dilemmas and issues which were raised in the media and in the public regarding the provisions of the Law on Exercise of Right to Health Care of Children, Pregnant Women and Nursing Mothers, which set out the duty of physicians and health institutions to inform the Republic Health Insurance Fund about abortions and stillborn babies, the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection said it was necessary for the authorities competent for implementation of the law to take all necessary measures to eliminate the dilemmas and prevent possible abuses or violations of the Law on Personal Data Protection.
In that regard, Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic said the following:
The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection submitted to the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia the Special Extraordinary Report on implementation of the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance in public enterprises.
In that regard, Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic said the following:
