delaying the delivery of medical reports
The Ministry of Health has warned that hospitals should not procrastinate in providing patients'' families with medical reports for their patients, as this is a right of patients and their families, as stipulated in the Patient Rights and Responsibilities Document in its ninth item.
And confirmed in a circular to health affairs directorates in the regions - issued by the General Director of the General Department of Patient Rights and Relations, Acting Dr. Fatima Yousef Al-Jaawan- The patient and his family have the right to obtain a comprehensive and accurate medical report, and to obtain the results of the complete examinations without conditions or restrictions. The circular called on all hospitals to apply this urgently.
The ministry explained that the circular was based on the complaints received by patients and their families regarding the hospital’s procrastination with patients ’medical reports.
