The crime of disclosing medical secrecy in Algerian legislation in accordance with the criminal law and the new health law of 2018

Abstract EN

At present, medical secrecy has become one of the most fundamental guarantees of human contact with the noblest professions of humanity.

therefore, the various laws protected the medical secrecy of the doctor and those who worked in the medical field and considered its disclosure a crime.

the physician's error is not always the result of involuntary circumstances.

the physician may, despite his position and the superiority of the message he carries out, commit criminal acts, in violation of the underlying principles of the medical profession, including the disclosure of medical secrecy.