Start with duty, record and medical causation
An unfortunate delay is not automatically criminal; ability, duty, urgency, knowledge and causation must be established.
Who received the request, what condition was apparent, what assistance was possible and what did delay change?
Independent expertise should identify the applicable specialty standard and limitations; it should not be asked to declare criminal guilt.
The unaltered clinical record matters first
Emergency calls, dispatch logs, triage notes, staffing, travel times, handovers, observations and causation opinion.
Clinical chronology
Reconstruct condition, decisions, interventions and response.
Individual duty
Distinguish practitioner, clinic, agency and executive roles.
Causation
Test competing medical explanations and legally assessed harm.
Articles that may enter the qualification
Leaving a sick person in danger
May apply to unjustified failure by a medical worker to provide urgent aid where a patient's life is endangered; duty, urgency, valid reason and consequence require proof.
Read full Article 130 text on this pageRead the relevant Criminal Code provisions
The panel below reproduces the available official English wording for convenient reading. Check the current Georgian text and the exact article part before relying on it, because later amendments may not yet appear in translation.
Article 130Leaving a sick person in danger+
1. Failure of a medical worker to provide urgent medical aid, without a valid reason, to a sick person whose life is endangered, –
shall be punished by a fine or corrective labour for a term of up to 15 months, with or without the deprivation of the right to hold an office or to carry out activities for a term of up to three years, or by house arrest for a term of six months to one year.
2. The same act which has resulted in a serious damage to health or death of a sick person, –
shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of three to five years, with the deprivation of the right to hold an office or to carry out activities for up to three years, or by house arrest for a term of one to two years.
The consolidated official source is listed in the source section at the end of this guide.
Secure time-stamped operational records before systems overwrite them.
Primary sources for this guide
Before acting, compare this guide with the current Georgian text and the exact document served in the case. The official English translation may not include the latest amendment.
Official consolidated Criminal Code — current text & PDF↗︎Law on Health Care↗︎Law on Patient Rights↗︎