Article 37 of Law on the Practice of Medicine and Allied Health Professions

The Medical Liability Agency shall have exclusive competence, through the committees it forms, to provide technical opinions on all matters presented to it through complaints, notifications, the present, reports, cases, and actions relating to medical errors and professional violations committed by practitioners of the profession, owners of health facilities, or their managers, as to whether or not a medical error or professional violation has occurred, whether in the governmental or private sector, stating the aspect and nature of the error and violation, if established, assessing them, identifying the person or persons technically responsible for it, assessing the resulting health damage, stating its effects, and imposing the disciplinary penalties prescribed in this Law in proportion to the gravity, nature, and extent of recurrence of the violation or error, if there is cause for doing so.