The most statements I found in the Charter for health care workers of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance (1995). There, health care, which serves the life, is seen as a duty of justice. The right to life is a fundamental good, though not the highest. A just distribution of resources must therefore ensure or be compatible first of all to the dignity of man. Life and health are interpreted holistically. The social dimension of health is not forgotten. Furthermore prevention, treatment and rehabilitation are equal-ranking. Concrete rules can be found mainly in No. 64-65 of the document. This is about the principle of “appropriate medical treatment in the remedies”. Principally there are many and direct quotations from the document of the Congregation of Faith “Jura et bona” (1980) to euthanasia. In the Charter for health care they are located in the general part and therefore are not limited on questions of euthanasia.
In a brochure of the Libreria Vaticana of the World Day of the Sick 2013 in Altötting is said, that a new Charter is on the way. It would be nice, that justice and an equal appropriate access to health care to disadvantaged persons and groups may play a role within.
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