Article 230 Federal Criminal Code

A prison sentence of three months to two years, up to one hundred days fines and suspension of three months to one year at the judgment of the judge shall be imposed on the directors, persons in charge or administrators of any health center, when they incur in any of the following cases:

I.- To prevent the exit of a patient, when he or his relatives request it, alleging debts of any kind;

II.- To retain without necessity a newborn, for the reasons referred to in the final part of the preceding section;

III.- To delay or deny for any reason the delivery of a corpse, except when an order of competent authority is required.

The same sanction shall be imposed on the persons in charge or administrators of funeral agencies that delay or unduly deny the delivery of a corpse, and likewise on the persons in charge, employees or dependents of a pharmacy, who when filling a prescription substitute the medicine specifically prescribed with another that causes harm or is evidently inappropriate to the ailment for which it was prescribed.