The corporation also warned that medical institutions cannot suspend or interrupt treatment or procedures that have already begun, “because such actions entail a violation of the fundamental right to health.”
The Constitutional Court reminded health care institutions that they must provide comprehensive and specialized services to migrant children and adolescents, even if they are not connected to the social security system.
“The state has an obligation to provide medical services to minors and must guarantee them comprehensive, adequate and specialized treatment, including migrant children and adolescents, even if they are not connected with the social security system,” the high court said.
The corporation also warned that medical institutions cannot suspend or interrupt treatment or procedures that have already begun, “because such actions entail a violation of the fundamental right to health.”
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“Providing a service in continuity means avoiding interruptions or delays, as well as unreasonable interruptions in treatment. It also implies inflicting the least possible trauma in the development of patient treatment,” the Supreme Court explained.
The appeal was filed by the court while examining the custody that a mother presented in favor of her son, after the Julio Mendez Barrenechea hospital refused to perform a second surgery on the minor because they were not connected to the healthcare system as they were Venezuelan citizens in the process of settlement his position in the country.
