10 July 2009
Luanda — The chairman of the Angolan Physicians Order, Carlos Alberto Pinto, Friday in Luanda spoke of the need for the medical institutions to create mechanisms of communication with the patients and their relatives, with a view to a closer doctor-patient-family relation.
He said that this relations must start from the consultation office where the relatives of the patients, especially if a child, should be informed about what is going on, asking them to sign a compromise.
Carlos Pinto said so at Augusto Ngangula maternity hospital, while speaking on "Medical deontology - medical responsibility from the medical-institutional point of view", attended by about 25 specialists.
The physician said the doctors should inform the patients and their relatives without breaching the professional secrecy, taking into account the fundamental ethic principles that remain valid every time and everywhere.
He said that breaching of deontological principles can attract legal action, adding that the article 4 of the Order's Statutes recommends a humanised service and without discrimination.
According to him, a compromise with the relatives of the patients protects the physician.
On the other hand, the official said the Order is worried about the rate of maternal and infant death, appealing for a good conduct on the part of the fellow physicians whom he advised to adopt the medical culture of following the patient to healing.
He also urged the colleagues to register the mistakes he said occur very often, even to experienced practitioners.
To him, the introduction of new technologies and modern diagnose equipment, the distance between the physician and the patient has widened.
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