民眾遇到緊急傷病患，常因施救之法律責任而卻步，行政院為消除民眾疑慮及鼓勵民眾對緊急傷病患伸出援手，爰參考外國「善良撒瑪利亞人法」之救人不受罰精神，擬具「緊急醫療救護法第14條之1、第14條之2修正草案」，增訂經公告之公共場所應置必要之緊急救護設備，以及救護人員以外之人使用緊急救護設備或施予急救措施者，適用民法、刑法緊急避難免責之規定。本文認為草案存在著「使用緊急救護設備或施予急救措施」之用語範圍過大、免責規定文義不明、救護人員非執勤期間之免責未納入規範等問題，經探討相關問題後，提出修正建議。

People encountering emergency patients often do not dare to rescue them because of the legal liability. To eliminate people’s concern and encourage them to rescue emergency patients, the Executive Yuan takes the foreign “Good Samaritan Law” for reference which is under the spirit not penalized to rescue people, and proposes “Draft of Amendments to the Emergency Medical Services Act, Article 14-1 and Article 14-2” regulating public places be provided with the necessary emergency rescue equipment after proclamation, and non-ambulance personnel using emergency ambulance equipment or giving first aid should be applicable to emergency shelter exemption provisions of civil law and criminal law. This paper maintains that the terms in the draft “ to use emergency ambulance equipment or to give first aid measures” is too broadly used and the meaning of the exemption provisions is not clearly defined and off-duty ambulance personnel’s exemption is not regulated, therefore recommends some amendments to the draft.