The right to health protection and medical care in an epidemic

Abstract

The article discusses approaches to understanding the right to health protection and medical care, general trends in recent years in changes in its guarantees. In the context of the consideration of the general system of countering the occurrence and prevention of emergency situations, the state of the right to health protection and medical care during the period of countering the COVID-19 pandemic is analyzed. The issue of legitimacy of restrictions imposed in the conditions of countering the epidemic, the possible scope of such restrictions, including taking into account modern doctrinal approaches, is analyzed. Conclusions are drawn, in particular, that in the Russian Federation during the period of countering the COVID-19 pandemic, the right to health protection and medical care was actually limited; it is necessary to improve the system of emergency situations created to protect constitutional rights, including the right to health protection and medical care.