By Abdullahi Idris, Bauchi In ensuring proper advocacy and total improvement towards the actualization of the wheels of Justice...
By Abdullahi Idris, Bauchi
In ensuring proper advocacy and total improvement towards the actualization of the wheels of Justice and patients’ rights have been preserved, protected, and improved without being truncated or deoxygenated across the country, the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Agency which has been mandated to protect the citizens’ bills of rights medically, have come up with modalities and developed “patterns of patients’ bills of rights for the protection of consumers, such rights have not limited to the following underlined fundamentals, consumer protection acts, child rights acts, national health acts among other instruments of rights.
The Executive Vice Chairman of the commission, Babatunde Irukera who led the advocacy to Abubakar Tafawa Teaching Hospital Bauchi, Bauchi Emir’s Palace, and the Bauchi State Government has said that the fundamental essence of the advocacy is to offer adequate enlightenment and sensitization inline with the protection of patients’ bills of rights, rights of patients’ to dignity, cleanliness and proper medical attention as health caregivers.
The Executive Vice chairman equally pointed out that the patients’ bills of rights must be protected within the ambit of laws of the federation within the confined procedures, ethics, guidelines, and regulations of the medical profession to the best globally acceptable practices and standards.
In another development, the Bauchi state Governor, Bala Mohammad who was ably represented by the Secretary to the state government, Barrister Kashim Ibrahim, the state government has fully welcomed the initiatives and assured the commission of their readiness to compliment with patients’ bills of rights and ensure those rights are protected through the required laid -down procedures across all medical facilities in the state.
The Emir Of Bauchi, Dr. Lurwanu Suleiman Adamu appreciates the commission for coming up with patients’ bills of rights saying, this will go along way in improving the health care delivery in the country.
He however urged all caregivers to support this great policy and as well to adhere strictly to patients’ bills of rights accordingly.
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