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Shenzhen passes regulation respecting patients’ end-of-life decisions
Published on: 2022-07-06
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Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong Province has recently passed a regulation on a person's "right to die," making it the first city in the Chinese mainland to allow critically ill patients to refuse "excessive life-saving treatment".
 

According to the revised medical regulations of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, if a patient doesn't want medical staff to "perform unnecessary resuscitation," the hospital should respect that wish and allow the patient to die peacefully.
 

A "right to die" or DNR order is a document that a person signs in advance, while conscious and aware, specifying what kind of medical care he or she wants or does not want at the end of an incurable illness, said the regulation.
 

Observers noted that it is a major breakthrough in China's medical legislation and will help promote the concept of "dying with dignity" in the whole society.
 

When patients enter the final stage of life, they may undergo unnecessary suffering when rescue and resuscitation efforts are carried out. With the introduction of the DNR order, a dilemma that has long plagued dying patients and their families will finally be solved.
 

深圳立法生前预嘱,把死亡的权利交给患者

《深圳经济特区医疗条例》修订稿第七十八条规定,医疗机构应当尊重患者生前预嘱的要求,收到患者或者其近亲属提供具备规定条件的生前预嘱后,在患者不可治愈的伤病末期或者临终时,医疗机构实施医疗救治措施应当尊重患者生前预嘱的意思。
 

深圳在“临终决定权”上做出了大胆突破,成为全国第一个实现生前预嘱立法的地区。

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