FCCPC wants Patients’ Bill of Right domesticated in states.

FCCPC wants Patients’ Bill of Right domesticated in states.

The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has called for the entrenchment and domestication of the Patients’ Bill of Right by the state governments and concerned healthcare providers with a view to increasing consumers’ confidence in the services they receive.

FCCPC Technical Assistance to the Executive Vice Chairman, Morayo Adisa, made this call at a healthcare provider training organised by Ace in collaboration with FCCPC.

The programme themed, ‘Strengthening Patient-centered Care: A Health Care Provider Training’, was held in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Thursday.

She said, “Indeed, the National Health Act was passed in 2014 and it includes a lot of things. I would say that in as much as we are not yet satisfied with the implementation of the Act, this is the more reason why the FCCPC came up with the PBoR in 2018 to simplify the rights of patients and make it more accessible.

“Certainly, grassroots level engagement is very important because if the people don’t know their right, they won’t be able to assert or enforce it or come to people like us to complain when such rights are being violated.

“Our strategy is to sensitise consumers at the grassroots level and also healthcare providers. As long as we continue on this sensitisation path which we started in 2018, over 20 healthcare facilities have domesticated the PBoR,” She explained