Surviving cancer patients’ rights will be equalized with other citizens’ rights when applying for loans and insurance. At the end of November, we wrote about how important it would be for the Slovenian government to pass a law granting equal rights to recovered oncology patients.

Today, the government adopted guidelines for preparing legislative solutions on the right of individuals to no longer be obliged to disclose information about their past illness when concluding financial, insurance and similar products within a specified period subsequent to recovering from cancer. “The survival rate of cancer patients is increasing in Europe and in Slovenia. In Slovenia, there are over 120,000 individuals who have ever suffered from one of the malignant diseases. Despite cancer becoming increasingly treatable as a chronic disease, cancer survivors face numerous obstacles when attempting to return to active daily life, including challenges related to accessing financial and credit services, especially when these services are related to life insurance,” stated the government.

Thus, the government prevents discrimination and enables survivors to have the same conditions as other citizens.

We extensively covered this issue in the article, published on our portal on November 27 last year. At that time, we interviewed Dr. Jaka Cepec, a member of the Slovenian Lymphoma and Leukemia Patient Association, who advocates that the right to be forgotten should be introduced into a national legal framework.

At Preiskovalno.si, we urge the government also to rectify the injustices suffered by hemophiliacs who were infected with hepatitis C during treatment 40 years ago. Yet the state does not acknowledge its guilt and responsibility for their illness by granting them compensation.