By Mohammed Nasir Shuaibu (Bauchi State Correspondent)
Some patient's and their relatives have applauded and commended the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission FCCPCs role on the domestication of Patients' Bill of Right at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) in Bauchi State.
In an interview with some of the patient's at the weekend, they expressed joy and happiness over the development. Babangida Baba and Mustapha Baba, sons of a female patient on admission for diabetes disease at the popular ward Sani Sami, told NIGERIAN NEWSLEADER Newspaper Correspondent that they have confident now that the Patients' Bill of Right has been domesticated in the hospital.
According to them, "We strongly believe that this measure will witness a lot of changes from some staff attitude to the patient's in the hospital. They urged the management to ensure full compliance of the Bill by all staff.
Corroborating, Mrs Joyce Gabriel from Shadawanka Barracks, said many patient's have suffered different types of humiliation from some of the staff in the hospital.
She said the non challant attitude is not restricted to only medical and para-medical personnel alone, but also the security staff. There's hardly a day that the security guards don't quarrel with either a patient's relatives or visitors, especially at the Emergency Unit of the Trauma Centre.
Mrs Joyce appealed to the management of the hospital to improve on its other facilities as well as educate their staff on the new bill, so as to have very good cordial relationship between staff and the patient's in the hospital.
She commended the giant efforts of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) for this great initiatives, saying that it is timely due to the lingering challenges being faced by majority patient's in the hospital.
Recall that the PBoR bills has three components that provided patient rights, patient responsibilities and provider responsibilities respectively, according to the FCCPC Executive Chairman, Babatunde Irukera.
In his response, the Chief Medical Director (CMD), Dr Yusuf .B.Jibrin, thanked the Commission for the visit and assure of the hospital's readiness and strict compliance.
NIGERIAN NEWSLEADER Newspaper Correspondent reports that patients have begun to experience improvements on services two days after the domestication of the Bill at the hospital. NNL.
