Abstract
The provision of health services in crisis situations associated with resource scarcity leads, among other things, to the need to develop criteria for their allocation. The consequences of inappropriate allocation of scarce resources can lead to criminal liability of health professionals and health service providers.
The subject of this paper is first of all an analysis of the individual criteria for allocation of scarce resources and their evaluation through the lens of ethics and the lens of the current legal system. Then, in the second part of the paper, in the context of allocation of scarce resources, I discuss the crime of negligent injury, the crime of failure to provide assistance and the possibilities of excluding criminal liability with the help of the institute of extreme emergency.