submitting medical reports
The Ministry of Health warned against the hospitals’ procrastination in providing patients’ families with medical reports for their patients, as this is a right of patients and their families, as stipulated in the Patients’ Rights and Responsibilities Document in its ninth article.
And she confirmed in a circular to the directorates of health affairs in the regions - issued by the Acting Director-General of the General Administration of Patients'' Rights and Relationships, Dr. Fatima Yousef Al-Jawan- The patient and his family have the right to obtain a comprehensive and accurate medical report and to obtain the results of the complementary examinations without conditions or restrictions. The circular called on all hospitals to implement this urgently.
The ministry explained that the circular came based on the complaints it received from patients and their families about the hospitals'' procrastination with patients'' medical reports.
