UNTH: Patients’ relatives to sign comportment forms at hospital
Relatives who want their sick persons to be admitted into the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu State, will henceforth sign comportment forms if the patient must be admitted into the hospital for medical care.
This is coming amidst a reported attack on a doctor by a patient’s relatives, who are now at large.
The affected doctor (names withheld) was attacked and reportedly beaten to pulp by relatives who were allegedly not satisfied with the way and manner their relation/patient was attended to. The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) in UNTH, after an emergency meeting, condemned the renewed attack on doctors by patients’ relatives.
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Led by Dr. Jide Uzoigwe, the ARD said it had ‘observed with dismay the recurrent cases of assault of our members while on duty inside the hospital by patients’ relatives’.
The security update, signed by Secretary of the ARD Security Committee, Dr Chinazom Ekwueme, said one of the measures being put in place to forestall recurrences was that ‘comportment forms shall be provided to be signed by the patient’s relatives before admission of patients. With this, the recurrent attack on our members who are on legitimate duty will no longer be tolerated’.
“Provision of emergency security hotlines for hospital staff, mounting of posters and flyers at strategic points in UNTH stating the consequences of assaulting a health worker on duty, provision of adequate lighting (solar preferable) at all corridors and corners of the Hospital,”
The ARD warned the public ‘to desist from assaulting any doctor, health worker and in fact any staff of the hospital’, stressing that ‘any grievance should be channeled via the appropriate quarters’.
