FAILURE TO RENDER ASSISTANCE TO THE SICK PERSON: QUALIFICATION AND SEPARATION FROM SIMILAR CRIME DEFINITIONS

The article has reviewed the features of definition and complicated issues of qualification of criminal failure to render assistance to the sick person; has proposed options of solution of disputable issues; has defined regulatory enactments, by means of which the requirements to render emergency aid to the sick person have been established; has made the separation from similar crime definitions such as: failure to render assistance to a person in a mortal danger; causing death as a result of inappropriate performance of professional obligations by a doctor; the article has also analyzed the judicial procedures of applying criminal and legislative norms of responsibility for the failure to render aid to the sick person.

sick person, emergency aid, failure to render assistance, crime qualification, obligation of medical personnel, inappropriate performance of professional obligations, criminal liability, negligence, guilty intent