Patients Rights Support Foundation (PRSF) is a Non-Governmental Organization (N.G.O) which seeks to encourage and promote medical excellence in our immediate hospital environment in Nigeria and worldwide, and to protect the rights of Patients in health centers across the country/globally. In promoting medical excellence PRSF’s main focus is the Personnel of Hospitals/Clinics and other health provi
ding centers having regards to how diligent and effectively they carry on their duties to the satisfaction of their Patients. PRSF recognizes that Medical Personnel and/or their family members in some cases also become Patients and so our mission as outlined herein is also in their interest. We in no way seek to witch hunt or unduly persecute them (Medical Personnel) but set out to ensure that they excel in their areas of specialties and that they attend to Patients with the love and care that they deserve. PRSF seeks also to engage in the education of the general public as to their rights particularly when they have the need to acquire the services of Medical Personnel to assist them to obtain reliefs from illnesses or diseases or obtain services for things such as corrective surgeries, deliveries e.t.c and as to the rights of Medical Personnel in the provision of excellent health care to Patients. In necessary cases PRSF shall engage in investigation of complaints brought before it of negligent acts of Medical Personnel (esp. those that have led to disabilities or loss of abilities, or injuries or death) and may refer such issues to the necessary authorities (including Courts and Tribunals) for decisions. As the primary aim of PRSF is to promote medical excellence, workshops, seminars and other sensitization programmes shall be exploited in a bid to train or retrain Medical Personnel on the existing laws and the need to handle Patients with the care/respect/dignity/attention they deserve. The general public too would be sensitized as to the rights of Medical Personnel and the need to corporate with them. PRSF in exposing Patients to their rights and those of Medical Personnel seeks to plant bill boards in strategic places in all cities/towns/villages and hospitals and other care centers in Nigeria which would capture in brief what Patients rights are. PRSF seeks to assist indigent or poor Patients who cannot afford to pay their medical bills and from time to time assist Patients in emergency wards/centers with urgently needed drugs/medical materials as may be required for their urgent resuscitation/treatment. PRSF seeks to engage in vigorous campaigns against maternal child deaths and abortions, we believe that women and/or children ought not to die before, during or post delivery. PRSF seeks to also speak out against unnecessary deaths of road accident victims and other persons in need of emergency treatment upon arrival at hospitals/health centers due to nonchalance of hospital staff/lack of drugs e.t.c. PRSF seeks to advocate for the rights of persons living with HIV/Aids and in doing so partner with the National Aids Control Agency (NACA) and all the States Aids Control Agencies (PLACA in Plateau State) in enlightening the general public as to the rights of HIV/AIDS Patients (esp. to dignity, association and freedom from discrimination esp. in relation to work) in and out of the hospital environment. We condemn the stigmatization of such persons and would pursue the protection of their rights from the appropriate criminal/civil Nigerian Institutions. PRSF seeks to be in strategic working partnership with Hospital/Health Care Centers heads in a bid to providing solutions to gaps in Medical Personnel/Patient relationships. PRSF seeks to work with the National Human Rights Commission, Federal and State Ministries of Health, Nigerian Medical Association and other Health Associations, all other Non-Governmental Organizations and all persons/bodies who are interested in the overall sound health of Patients in Nigeria and globally. PRSF is a duly incorporated N.G.O (RC No.74224) with its head office in Jos, Plateau State and offices in Abuja, but plans are on to open offices in all the other States in Nigeria. PRSF has experienced hands to run its affairs and seeks to have as many volunteer workers all over Nigeria and all over the international community.
