---
title: "Healthcare Law"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/healthcare-and-pharmaceutical-law-en/healthcare-law-522-en"
field: "Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Law"
description: "Healthcare law in Georgia: Law on Medical Activity Articles 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 — purpose, scope, terms, independence. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-10-14"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Healthcare Law

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/healthcare-and-pharmaceutical-law-en/healthcare-law-522-en

## What Healthcare Law Is in Georgia

The foundation of the Georgian healthcare-law system is the Law of Georgia on Medical Activity, and the law's introductory chapter — purpose, scope of regulation, legislative framework and definitions — is the constitutional layer of the entire field. The law's purpose is defined by its elements: ensuring appropriate professional education and practical training of the subject of independent medical activity; establishing proper state supervision over that professional activity; protecting the subject's rights; and establishing the medical standards and ethical norms recognised in the country — ultimately, for the purpose of highly qualified medical services for the population.

The scope of regulation is precisely drawn: the law regulates legal relations between the subject of independent medical activity, the paramedic and state authorities, natural persons and legal persons. The law's operation thus extends along three axes — the professional subject, the state and the patient — and it is precisely this triangle that defines every subsequent institution of healthcare law.

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### What does Georgian healthcare law regulate?

Legal relations between the subject of medical activity, the paramedic, state authorities, natural and legal persons.

### Which legislation applies?

The Constitution, international treaties, the Law on Health Protection, the Law on Medical Activity and other normative acts.

### Why do the definitions matter?

Because every concept — from medical activity to telemedicine — carries statutory content, and most disputes rest on the misuse of concepts.

### Can a physician be ordered to act?

Demanding actions contrary to ethics and the law's principles is prohibited — regardless of the demanding party's position.