Health sanctioning procedure: analysis of the main infractions related to the medical care provided by IPRESS

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to briefly describe the main administrative health offences related to medical care. However, to achieve this objective, it is first necessary to make a brief reference to the foundations of SUSALUD’s sanctioning power, pointing out the main characteristics of the sanctioning procedure and the bodies involved in its processing. Subsequently, the main infractions will be analyzed considering the legal, doctrinal in some cases and medical grounds that support each of them, mentioning some examples for the reader’s understanding. Finally, mention will be made of the main errors committed at the time of filing complaints, as well as the possibility of using other alternative mechanisms for the resolution of controversies, all of this respecting the objective of the present work, which is to make the sanctioning procedure known as the protection of health rights.