Pesakit Kanak-kanak dan Keizinan kepada Rawatan Perubatan Menurut Undang-undang di Malaysia
Keywords:
child patient, consent to medical treatment, Malaysian law, English lawAbstract
This article aims to determine whether in Malaysia a child patient can give a valid consent in law to his/her medical treatment. Is there any legal provision in Malaysia that allows patients who are still children to give their own consent? The issue of whether a patient who is still a child has the right to give consent to medical treatment needs to be researched and discussed in order to give clarity and certainty to the law so that it can in turn be used as the basis for medical and legal practice. In this article the writer will refer to Malaysian laws that are relevant to the issue and henceforth determine whether there is a need for a specific law to be introduced pertaining to consent to medical treatment by children. In doing so, the writer will also refer to English laws on the same issue.References
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