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By Amina Abdullahi Girbo
In ensuring proper advocacy and total improvement towards 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 government agency FCCPC as the name implies federal competition and consumer protection agency which has been mandated to protect the citizens’ bills of rights medically, have came up with modalities and developed “patterns of patients’ bills of rights for the protection of consumers, such rights has 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 Bauchi state Government, has said that the fundamental essence of the advocacy is to offer adequate enlightenment and sensitization inline with protection of patients’s bills of 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 confine procedures, ethics, guidelines and regulations of the medical profession to the best globally acceptable practices and standard.
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 these great initiatives and assures 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 care-givers to support this great policy and as well to adhere strictly to patients’ bills of rights accordingly.