Abia Govt cautions doctors against rejecting emergency patients over money

Doctors, nurses and different aesculapian unit successful Abia hospitals person been told to archetypal prevention the beingness of a diligent brought into their facilities nether exigency condition, earlier demanding for payment.

The caution was fixed during the ongoing grooming programme organized by the Abia State authorities for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, laboratory technicians and different Abia aesculapian unit successful Umuahia.

The programme, which is being utilized to hole Patients Liaison Officers, PLOs, for hospitals, besides cautioned aesculapian unit successful the State against utilizing harsh words against patients and their household members but brushed connection and adjacent care.

Speaking during the grooming league successful Umuahia, the Chief Executive Officer of Quantus Medical Foundation, Dr. Nnenna Ihekoromadu decried the mediocre patient-personnel narration successful Nigeria.

She said sick persons successful the infirmary needed respect, brushed words and adjacent attraction to fasten the healing capableness of drugs, pointing retired that doctors, nurses, pharmacists, Lab technicians oregon different unit connected work should beryllium held accountable for bully oregon atrocious work rendered to their patients.

She noted that it was incorrect to wantonness a diligent nether exigency to destiny due to the fact that nary wealth was deposited by the patient’s family.
“So if a diligent cannot spend attraction and they’ve travel into an exigency situation, they volition person to beryllium trea...