The Anambra State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Afam Obidike says the State government is building a healthcare system that would be rendering quality, affordable and accessible health care services to the people of the state at all times.
Dr. Obidike disclosed this during a one day “Non-residential Training for Enhancing Healthcare Delivery Through Promoting Awareness on Patients’ Bill of Rights” in Awka.
The event attracted healthcare providers and other relevant stakeholders from the different local government areas in the state.
Patients’ Bill of Rights is an aggregation of patient’s rights that exist in other instruments including, the Constitution of the Federal Republic, Consumer Protection Act, Child Rights Act, Freedom of Information Act, National Health Act, among others.
Speaking during the training, Dr. Obidike said that the Patients’ Bill of Rights was conceptualized to improve quality of care and ensure accountability for human rights violations and abuses in the healthcare sector.
The Anambra Health Commissioner noted that Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s administration is desirous of giving Ndi Anambra a healthcare system that would be globally competitive in terms of service delivery, as well as ensure that all the rights of patients are strictly adhered to in all medical facilities in the state, describing the training as a step in the right direction.
In her lecture captioned “Empowering Patients, Enhancing Care”, Dr. Uche Umeh from the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Awka, x-rayed the origin of the Patients’ Bill of Rights, saying that it was designed for patients to know their rights and when they are tampered with, and as well educate medical service providers on what they need to know about the patients’ Bill of Rights.
Earlier in a welcome remark, the Acting Director of Public Health in the State Ministry of Health, Dr. Afam Anaeme who described the Patient Bill of Rights as a new dawn in ensuing effective and efficient healthcare delivery, urged participants to ensure the domestication of the bill in their various facilities, saying that it will also reduce unnecessary litigations, quackery, among other things.
The Anambra State Health Educator, Mrs. Uju Onwuegbusi, the State Director of Medical Services, Dr. Ugochukwu Chukwulobelu among numerous others attended the training while handing over of the Patients’ Bill of Rights banners to the Heads of public and private hospitals led to the climax of the event.
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