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Momodou
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 Posted - 26 Oct 2009 : 18:23:18
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Alarming Irregularities in Health Sector
By Lamin Njie
Doctor Adama Sallah, Registrar of the Gambia Medical and Dental Council has said that his council has noticed some alarming irregularities in the delivery of health services within the country in recent times particularly with the private sector.
According to him, certain companies and institutions in the private sector are restricting and manipulating their staff so that they can only utilize the services of a particular Clinic, Doctor or Dentist. This, he said constitute among other things a gross infringement of the patient rights and tantamount to violation of the ethical rules and regulations of the medical profession.
Dr. Sallah made this revelation to journalists during a press conference on Thursday 22 October, 2009 at Lamtoro Clinic in Senegambia.According to him, it has been clear that certain Human Resource Managers in some companies and Banks are trying to strikes deals with certain Doctors/Dentists/Clinics to give them a monopoly of taking care of their staff for reasons best known to them. He further stated that it is therefore absolutely necessary for the heads of these Institutions/Banks to eliminate all such forms of restriction and allow free movement of their staff to whichever facility their needs dictates.
“The patient should have the unqualified right to consult the Doctor/Dentist of his/her choice. The reasons for these are knowledge; competence and experience vary among Doctors/Dentists,” he said. The Medical and Dental Registrar further stated that there are some professional Doctors/Dentists who are not truthful, competence, and lack the experience. However, he said some of these Doctors/Dentists are not able to manipulate heads of institutions and the public at large to believe in their false claims.
“The danger with this kind of practice is that it causes unnecessary delay for the patient to have access to quality medical and dental care which might have some very serious repercussion for the individual and his or her family”, Dr Sallah said.
He said unfortunately some paramedics though are qualified after undergoing some post graduate training to carry out limited, supervised medical and dental practice, they do not seem to respect such limitations. Consequently they quickly try to assume the role of a Doctor/Dentist and try to carry out procedures and treatments which they are aware, they lack such merits.
“Needless to say there are numerous cases of misdiagnosis, mistreatments, wrongly executed procedures and unforgivable delay in letting the patient access the qualified care he/she needs”, he said.
Sallah called for collective efforts to address these irregularities to ensure that they are brought to a quick end before further lives are lost or undue human suffering is maintained. He finally revealed that his council in its drive to fully sensitize patients of their rights, is working on a Patient Rights Charter in line with current international recommendations.
“As soon as the charter is established it would be disseminated”, he concluded.
Source: The Daily News
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toubab1020
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Posted - 26 Oct 2009 : 21:07:51
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| All very good this, very laudable, "fully sensitize patients of their rights," who will the patients complain to? who will see that those who break the charter are bought to justice and what penalties will be available to such a body to enforce and how? this is all political speak with no concrete foundation at all,am I wrong ? Its not all about health a lot of is is about MONEY as usual. |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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