By Bashir Hassan Abubakar
Bauchi State Government and the State Emirate Council have expressed their readiness to lend their support in the domestication of Patients’ Bills of Rights in Bauchi (PBoR) in all the State owned healthcare facilities across across the State.
The pledge came in the aftermath of a high powered advocacy visit to Bauchi State a carried out by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) leadership under the Executive Vice Chairman Babatunde Irukera.
Receiving the high powered FCCPC delegation on behalf of the State Government, Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Barrister Kashim Ibrahim, said the the State Government is fully committed to the domestication of Patients’ Bills of Rights in (PBoR) in Bauchi State.
The SSG said that the domestication of PBoR, when implemented, will pave the way for improved health care services due to the friendly environment at the health facilities where patients feels he/she is being protected through confidential interface with health care service providers.
He said that Bauchi State Government is exploring all avenues to improve on its health care systems and that the domestication of the PBoR will go along in complementing Government efforts in that direction.
Lending his support, Emir Of Bauchi, Dr Rilwanu Suleimanu Adamu, appreciates the Commission for spearheading the patients’ bills of rights saying that the measures will build the confidence of patients into accessing health care services especially at the rural areas.
The Royal Father then pledged the support of the State traditional institutions for the successful implementation of the PBoR when domesticated.
The Emir also urged delegation to devise ways, in partnership with the State and LGAs, of cascading awareness on the PBoR, especially at the grass roots level.
Earlier in his remarks at the Government House and Emir’s Palace, the Executive Vice Chairman of the commission, Babatunde Irukera, said that the main objective of the advocacy visit is to offer adequate enlightenment and sensitization inline with protection of patients’s bills of rights, rights of patients’ to dignity, cleanliness and proper medical attention as healthcare facilities across all the nooks and crannies of the Country.
The Executive Vice chairman, equally pointed out that the patients’ bills of rights must be protected within the ambit of laws of the federation inline with procedures, ethics, guidelines and regulations of the medical profession with a view to entrenching global acceptable practices and standards.
Our correspondent reports that the delegation also proceeded to Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital Bauchi, where the team unveiled the domesticated PBoR at the Teaching Hospital, thus, making it the first health care facility within the State to commenced implementation of the Patients’ Bill of Rights.
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