Emilia-Romagna moves forward on the end of life and strengthens the resolution
with which it establishes that it is the
Regional Committee for Ethics in the Clinic (Corec)
that gives an opinion on requests for medically assisted suicide by those who find themselves in the foreseen conditions by the Constitutional Court.
The Territorial Ethics Committees (CET) recalled by the National Bioethics Committee as a possible body called upon to express themselves, explains the Region, are not a necessary choice "where specific bodies for clinical ethics exist, as happens in Emilia-Romagna".
The Council approved an
ad hoc supplementary act
which explains this.
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While waiting for a national law
for a topic of such great importance and sensitivity, we confirm our commitment to implement what was requested by the High Court".
Thus Raffaele Donini, regional councilor for health in Emilia-Romagna, regarding the new supplementary act of the council on the resolution on the end of life.
"We have strengthened the reasons, focusing on all the legal steps in support of this position - he explains - We remember that the Regions are called upon to apply what was established by the Court. It was necessary to put the healthcare system in a position to fulfill this obligation in the best possible way , as also requested by the Ministry of Health".
The ruling to which he refers is number 242 of 2019 of the Constitutional Court on the end of life.
The Emilia-Romagna Region indicates that the Committee for Clinical Ethics already operating at the Ausl-Irccs of Reggi Emilia
will take on the role of Regional Committee for Ethics in the Clinic (Corec)
.
Its experience - born as an experiment in 2020 - is thus given a regional value to guarantee territorial homogeneity.
Corec is the body that - according to the regional resolution on the end of life - must express a (non-binding) opinion on requests for medically assisted suicide that arrive at the local health authorities.
The supplementary act approved by the Council led by Stefano Bonaccini reiterates the legitimacy of the role of Corec in the application evaluation procedure.
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