Article 19. Rights of Minors

The State shall ensure the right of minors to health protection by creating the most favorable conditions for their physical and moral development and for the prevention of diseases, as well as by providing medical services in preschool institutions, schools and other institutions.

Minors shall have the following rights:

to be under dispensary supervision and to receive treatment in pediatric and adolescent treatment-and-prophylactic institutions in accordance with the procedure established by the Ministry of Health;

to receive sanitary and hygienic education, to study and to work under conditions corresponding to their physiological characteristics and health;

to receive free medical consultations in determining vocational fitness at the expense of the State budget;

to receive necessary information about their health in a accessible form.

Minors over the age of fourteen shall have the right to give voluntary informed consent to medical intervention or to refuse it.

Minors with physical or mental disabilities may, upon the application of their parents or legal guardians, reside in social protection institutions at the expense of the State budget, charitable funds and other foundations, as well as at the expense of parents or legal guardians.

Parents or other persons who violate the rights and interests of minors under their care, evade their upbringing, or treat minors with cruelty to the extent that it harms their health shall be held liable in accordance with the procedure established by law.