Following incessant violations of the rights of patients in treatment centres in some parts of the country, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday released a set of standard minimum guidelines to protect the rights of COVID-19 patients in treatment centres.
The Executive Secretary of the Commission, Tony Ojukwu, who disclosed this while addressing a press conference in Abuja said, in some cases, the violations of the rights of patients of the COVID -19 resulted into protests and abscondment of patients from the treatment centres.
He said the Commission deemed it fit to issue the set of guidelines in order to ensure that the basic rights of patients are…
Source: Nigerian Tribune
