Patient Rights
Respect and Appreciation:
- Treat patients with all the respect and
under all circumstances, in a manner which ensure maintaining of their dignity.
- Respect patient social, cultural,
regional, confessional and spiritual believes.
Safety:
- Providing warning boards in all places where
patient and his companion might be under risk.
- The medical care environment should be
safe and suitable for patient health situation.
- Providing safety and security in all far
and sensitive places, especially women hypnotism, delivery rooms, incubator and
new birth ward.
Confidentiality:
- Guarantee full confidentiality for patient
and not to reveal his problem, name or any type of disease. Also, not
publishing any information related to him to others without his/her prior
consistent.
Privacy:
- Not talking to anyone from visitors or
others about medical care service given to the patient.
- Respect patient privacy and not to strap
his body unless required.
Protection:
- Protect patient against verbal or
psychological abuses that might take place by physician staff, nurses or other
workers in the hospital.
- Provide sufficient procedures to protect
patient belongings against damaging and
stealing.
- Protect children and babies against
sexual abuse and abduction.
- Verify the identification of guardian,
parent or a person authorized by patient to sign instead of him.
Obtain of Caring:
- Respect patient right to evaluate and
treatment pains.
- Acquaintance of patient or his/her legal
guardian with all information related to patient condition clearly, adequately
and using a clear language.
Participating in Medical Care Plan:
- Know the identity of physician and
clinical team and ways to contact them.
- To know the medical care offered by the
health facility, adopted health care plans and capabilities of the facility from
a physician.
- Physician discussing to the patient or
guardian about suggested therapy and its expected advantages, and knowing medical
alternatives, its complications and risks using clear and simple language.
Rejection of Medicine:
- The patient or guardian will have the
right to reject all or part of suggested medicines. The facility shall, subject
to such right unless contradicted applicable laws and inform them about the
expected results of rejection and get their signatures on acknowledgement
module for necessity.
- The patient or his guardian has the right
to know alternative therapies in case of rejection.
Clearance and Extensiveness of
Acknowledgment:
- Providing a list of therapies required
detailed acknowledgment.
- Providing the patient with a complete
medical report about his health situation after accurate check.
- The patient has the right to obtain an
acknowledgment in case of photography with signing module prepared for that.
Dealing with Costs and Medical Insurance:
- The patient has the right to know all the
procedures of the cost of his/her health situation before and after therapy.
Complaints and Suggestions:
- Submitting any verbal or written complaints
or any suggestions without affecting medical plan.
Involving in Researches and Studying:
- The patient has the right to ask to
participate in research program or studies related to his/her case when such
case is matching research conditions according available potentials.
- Providing clear and simple information
about research or study, clinical and medical therapy used which related to the
human and its expected results of participating in.
Rights of Disabled Patient:
- Respect his/her dignity and personal
decisions, including his/her free of deciding his choices independently.
- Providing devices, tools and requirements
of disables in the health facility.
- Help him/her to move inside the facility
when needed, not to make the discrimination between him/her and other patients.
Rights of Sick Children:
- The existence of special policy to
protect children from all types of abusing.
- Abiding of medical staff to report all
abuse cases against children to concerned authorities.
Rights of Sick Elder:
- Help him/her to obtain required medical
and health services.
- Ease procedures of obtaining appointments
and reports.
Right of Psychopaths:
- Brief him/her about all his rights and
how to practice them, or his guardian in case if the patient encounters any
challenges to understand it.
- Human treatment and protection against
all types of abusing, maleficence and therapy using unjustified medicines.