Patient’s rights

Patient’s Rights

• The personal privacy of the patient must be protected.
• The physically disabled patient should be given reasonable help.
• Must be given equal treatment to patients without discrimination on the base of economic status.
• Must be given medical detail about every patient and their information must be protected from misuse.
• They must be given adequate treatment in a safe and secure atmosphere.
• Infants, small children, disabled individuals, and elderly patients must be protected from abuse and physical assault.
• All kinds of information like diagnosis, treatment, benefits of patients, and potential communication, possible options of treatment must be communicated in the simplest language that should be easy to understand.
• Must be consented to before taking picture of the face of the patient.
• If the patient refuses the diagnostic procedure, they must be informed about its consequences.
• They have the right to know about the person involved in treatment, diagnosis, and other services.
• The request of patient must listen if they wish to take a second opinion.
• They must be informed if they are being transferred from one consultant to another consultant.
• They must be informed if their treatment is for experimental research. In that case, written consent is mandatory.
• Their consent must be taken in case of tissue/organ donation and receiving.
• They must be explained in financial statements in the simplest way.