
Cyprus
Regulations of Conduct of Doctors, Article 8
Doctors (Council, Discipline and Pension Fund) Law of 1967 & 1970
". . . a doctor may refuse medical treatment to a patient except in cases
of emergency or humanitarian duty; this general provision may be relied
upon, in prinicple, where the motivations for refusing to provide a medical
treatment is religious or ideological."*
*Precis in English from EU Network of Independent Experts
on Fundamental Rights, Opinion No. 4-2005: The Right to Conscientious
Objection and the Conclusion by EU Member States of Concordats with the Holy
See (14 December, 2005), p. 9