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Health care professionals provide health care treatment. This includes everything from emergency surgery to annual check ups. Health care also includes things like getting vaccines, home care visits and physiotherapy.
Understanding how to access health care and who can provide health care is important. You should know your options, rights and responsibilities. This will help ensure you receive quality care.
Except in certain cases, patients must give consent to medical treatment. There are rules about what makes consent valid. If someone cannot give consent, another person can be appointed to give consent for them. There are also specific rules about consenting to medical assistance in dying.
HIV, or the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, is the virus that causes AIDS, or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. HIV can pass from person-to-person through things such as having unprotected sex or sharing needles. Because of this, there are rules about testing and disclosure. There are also laws that provide protection for people with HIV or AIDS against discrimination.
When you give information to your doctor or other health care provider, they must keep it confidential. There are certain exceptions to this outlined in the law. You also have a right to access your personal health information that is kept by a health care provider, again with some exceptions.
The Regina Public Library and Saskatoon Public Library are hosting free Law Fair events during Saskatchewan Access to Justice Week to connect people with free legal information, assistance, and support. Attend to acquire legal knowledge and to broaden awareness of legal rights and responsibilities!