Primary reason for treatment
11 Primary reason for treatment
Health care primarily to treat organic malfunction or disease, of a principal, is health care without which an organic malfunction or disease of the principal is likely to cause serious or irreversible damage to the principal’s physical health.
Examples—
1 Health care involving sterilisation may be primarily to treat organic malfunction or disease if the principal has cancer affecting the reproductive system or cryptorchidism.
2 A procedure involving termination of a pregnancy may be primarily to treat organic malfunction if the principal is a pregnant person requiring abdominal surgery for injuries sustained in an accident.
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