Your rights as a patient!
International Human Rights Day is in December. As a patient in South Africa, you have a right to a healthy and safe environment.

Everyone has the right to a healthy and safe environment that will ensure their physical and mental health or well-being.

Physiotherapists aim to live up to the letter and the spirit of the Patient Rights Charter. Ask your physiotherapist for a copy!

Your rights as a patient!
International Human Rights Day is in December. As a patient in South Africa, you have a right to informed consent.

Everyone has the right to be given full and accurate information about the nature of one’s illnesses, diagnostic procedures, the proposed treatment and the costs involved.

Physiotherapists aim to live up to the letter and the spirit of the Patient Rights Charter. Ask your physiotherapist for a copy!

Your rights as a patient!
International Human Rights Day is in December. As a patient in South Africa, you have a right to counselling without discrimination, coercion or violence on sensitive matters such as reproductive health, cancer, or palliative care that is affordable and effective in cases of incurable or terminal illness.

Physiotherapists aim to live up to the letter and the spirit of the Patient Rights Charter. Ask your physiotherapist for a copy!

Your rights as a patient!
International Human Rights Day is in December. As a patient in South Africa, you have a right to a positive disposition displayed by health care providers that demonstrates courtesy, human dignity, patience, empathy and tolerance.

Physiotherapists aim to live up to the letter and the spirit of the Patient Rights Charter. Ask your physiotherapist for a copy!

Your rights as a patient!
International Human Rights Day is in December. As a patient in South Africa, you have a right to be referred for a second opinion.

Everyone has the right to be referred for a second opinion on request, to a health provider of one’s choice.

Physiotherapists aim to live up to the letter and the spirit of the Patient Rights Charter. Ask your physiotherapist for a copy!

 

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