Kozhikode private hospitals to set up Grievance redressal systems for patients
Kozhikode: With an aim to prevent attacks against healthcare professionals, the health authorities have come up with a new proposal to establish grievance redressal systems for patients in Kozhikode private hospitals so that they would have a place to put forth their problems.
A meeting of private hospital representatives would be held on April 26 in Kozhikode to discuss the proposal, said the members of the Kozhikode branch of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) Kerala. Alex Franklin, chairman, IMA’s committee for safe zone hospitals and Joseph Benevan, State secretary of the organisation might be addressing the meeting.
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According to Sankar Mahadevan, district vice-president, of IMA, the kin of the patients have often pointed out the lack of a system which would enable them to express their issues and problems like medical negligence. He informed the Hindu that this new system would allow patients and their kin to express their issues to the hospital representatives. He added that it would be then taken up with the authorities and doctors’ organisations such as the IMA.
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