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proposals on health care delivery submitted by citizen.
27.Members of certain communities are treated in separate ways with a
lower standard of care.
28.Health workers refuse to treat sex workers, drug workers or LGBT
persons.
29.Maternal and reproductive health services for women are lacking.
30. A country fails to provide health services to t h e p o o r o r n o n citizen.
What constitute adequacy of patient care?
The response to following queries helps to decide the adequacy of
patient care.
1. Whether the prisoner's primary health screening was done upon
entry in prison?
2. Whether any information about chronic/present illness, drug abuse,
medicines currently taking, past operation history given by the
prisoner was adequately acted upon?
3. Whether the disease was timely diagnosed?
4. Whether the disease was adequately investigated?
5. Whether the prisoner was timely attended?
6. Whether the prisoner was in the need of emergency treatment and
was provided with same?
7. Whether the prisoner was provided with de initive treatment?
8. Whether the prisoner was adequately advised?
9. Whether the prisoner was timely referred?
10.Whether the prisoner was provided with referral specialist care
after being referred?
11.Whether the prisoner was prematurely discharged?
12.Whether transportation services were provided during referral?
13.Whether adequate diet was provided?
14.Whether the medicines were actually given?
15.Whether follow-up advices were adhered to?
16.Whether regular weekly/monthly check up was done?
17.Whether proportionate patient care of primary / secondary /
tertiary centre were provided as per the need?
18.Whether the disease was treatable/curable/preventable?
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