A physician, dentist, veterinary surgeon, pharmacist, midwife or nurse, or any other person authorized to render professional medical services who, contrary to his duty and without just cause, refuses to provide medical services in case of a serious need,
Penal Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation.
Article 274
Failure to Provide Medical Services · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
is guilty of the offence of failure to provide medical services, a Class 1 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 6 months and not more than 12 months, or a fine of 20,001 – 50,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 2,500 Nakfas.