Medical responsibility in the normative plurality of Ecuador

Abstract

The constitutional right to health should not be understood as the obligation of the Ecuadorian state to guarantee the absence of diseases, but rather as a set of constitutional rights and duties that must be guaranteed so that health can be the bridge exercise of other rights. In the provision of these health services, due to their own risk, harmful events may be generated that involve the establishment of civil or criminal liability, excluding medical liability, which will be addressed in the light of the normative plurality in the Ecuador.