The Health Ministry must abandon the practice of writing the diagnosis or code of the patient’s disease in the medical leave certificates. This decision was taken by the Supreme Court of Justice, Info-Prim Neo reports. Legal action was taken in 2009 by a citizen, who is supported by the Moldova Institute for Human Rights (IDOM). According to a communiqué from IDOM, the indication of the diagnosis in the medical leave certificate violates the patient’s right to private life and runs counter to the legislation. The Health Ministry’s decision to include medical codes in the certificates wasn’t welcome by the human rights defenders. The Institute was against this procedure as the codes were used by doctors from all over the world and could be easily found by anyone on the website of the World Health Organization. By its decision, the Supreme Court of Justice annulled the provisions concerning the indication of the diagnosis or the disease’s code in the patient’s medical leave certificate. The representatives of the Health Ministry said earlier they agree that the diagnosis should not be indicated in the certificate, but there must be found another mechanism as allowances must be paid for some of the diseases and this thing must be specified.