NIEM secretary-general Anuchar Sethasathien said the institute would outline criteria to protect the rights of emergency and trauma patients and set up an Emco Service Centre to offer 24-hour consultant services. He said state agencies had met and mapped out guidelines for hospitals to protect the rights of emergency and trauma patients so that they would receive medical treatment unconditionally without charge. \r\nHe said emergency and trauma patients must be able to access medical treatment from the closest hospital regardless of whether it is a private hospital. |
