Hungary: Possibility for an individual who now resides outside Hungary to obtain a medical report from a hospital or a clinic where he or she had received treatment; procedures to obtain this medical report (1999-January 2002)
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 February 2002 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | HUN38368.E |
| Reference | 2 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Hungary: Possibility for an individual who now resides outside Hungary to obtain a medical report from a hospital or a clinic where he or she had received treatment; procedures to obtain this medical report (1999-January 2002), 1 February 2002, HUN38368.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3df4be3d24.html [accessed 17 September 2023] |
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The following information was provided by the Canadian embassy in Budapest which contacted a counselor-at-law at Petz Aladar Hospital in Gyor (Gyor-Moson-Sopron county, northwestern Hungary), a lawyer with the legal department of Semmelweis University Budapest who also represents Kutvolgyi Clinic in Budapest, and a representative of patients' rights at Szent Laszlo Hospital in Budapest (21 January 2002).
According to Hungarian legislation, medical reports are kept by hospitals and clinics, but they are the property of patients. As such, patients have the right to access and obtain a copy of them provided he or she covers all the costs of copying and mailing. Hospitals and clinics must keep "register books" indefinitely and store hospital bulletins, "anamnesis" and "case histories" for 50 years.
If an individual who now resides outside Hungary needs a medical report from a hospital or a clinic in Hungary where he or she received treatment, he or she must send the hospital or the clinic in question a request for the desired document with proof that he or she is entitled to received this (these) document(s). An individual may grant access to his or her documents to someone else.
Several laws and regulations govern hospital records in Hungary: Act CLIV of 1997 on Health, Act CLXVII of 1997 on Data Protection, Order ILVII of 1997 on Health Data Protection, Order IX of 1999 on the Handling/Administration of Health Institution's Documentation, and Act LIIII of 1992 on Official Documents.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.
Reference
Embassy of Canada, Budapest. 21 January 2001. Correspondence.