Residents are encouraged to report illegal use of bacon infusions
The State Accreditation Service for Health Care Activities under the Ministry of Health Protection (Accreditation Service) notices that users publish messages on social networks about the use of vitamin infusions and "cocktails" without a doctor's appointment and not in a personal health care facility. In this way, information about self-medication, which is dangerous to human health, spreads. The Service urges you to inform it about such cases, so that it can decide on the initiation of an investigation.
"The Accreditation Service will be grateful for prompt notifications that will help our institution ensure patient safety and the provision of quality personal health care services. We are convinced that timely and decisive decisions will prevent illegal activities that harm the health of patients, prevent unscrupulous persons from offering their illegal services, and encourage them to abandon illegal offers and announcements in the public space," says Tadas Žentelis, director of the Accreditation Service.
Personal health care services, including the use of intravenous infusions, is a personal health care service that can only be provided in an institution licensed according to the procedure established by law and only by a medical specialist who has a personal health care specialist license recognized according to the prescribed procedure. The legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania do not provide for the possibility of providing health care services outside of a personal health care institution, except for certain exceptions, and the legal acts do not provide for the possibility of providing personal health care services to non-medical specialists.
It should be noted that the institution acquires the right to engage in health care activities only after obtaining licenses in accordance with the established procedure. Health care or pharmaceutical activities carried out by natural persons, institutions without a license are illegal. In the Republic of Lithuania, the above-mentioned licenses are issued, suspended and destroyed by the Accreditation Service for natural persons and institutions. Illegal translation of personal health care activities is subject to administrative liability, entailing a fine from 600 to 1,140 euros.
Taking into account the fact that the services of infusions with vitamins and "cocktails" provided by non-medical specialists and non-personal health care institutions are not permitted, the Accreditation Service, in order to prevent the illegal conversion of health care activities, calls on users of social networks, first of all, not to use such services, and upon noticing advertisements of a similar nature, to notify our institution about cases of provision of these services, specifying the patient's personal data, address of the place of service provision, time, data of the specific person providing the service, evidence confirming the provision of the service (prescription, leaflet similar to a prescription, etc.) .
Last updated: 26-01-2023
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