Speaking in a contempo account on The Lowdown on GhanaWeb TV, he fatigued the charge for healthcare professionals to advance the assurance of their clients
He said some Ghanaian politicians, for instance, seek healthcare away because they abhorrence their bloom annal may not be handled able-bodied by healthcare professionals locally
"If you are to aperture confidentiality, it should be with the accord of the client, and not based on the angle of the clinician. It is not accepted to appear from a doctor, it sends the amiss signals to patients, that for all those coming, your advice would be appear to the accepted public
"It is immoral, amateurish and adjoin our ethical codes for doctors to aperture the acquaintance of clients. Some of our leaders told me they go out there to seek healthcare not necessarily because we don't accept competent bodies to handle it here, but because they anticipate their advice may not be handled able-bodied here," he stated
Dr. Addo Dankwa antiseptic that there is a attenuate band amid aloofness and acquaintance back it comes to healthcare delivery
"Privacy is the appropriate to anticipate bodies from accepting admission to one's clandestine amplitude but for confidentiality, the being has aggregate advice with a healthcare able and you that doctor that has accustomed the information, you don't allotment the medical annal with the accord of the third party," he explained
Dr. Addo Dankwa added that although assignment of acquaintance should be enjoyed by all classes, whether celebrity, or criminals, there are exceptions
"A accessible being should adore acquaintance and back it comes to bloom records, you aperture it alone back the law allows you to do so. Acquaintance is not complete and one can be accountable to absolution information, alone in the borders of the law
"At times, it is in the absorption of the accessible for you to absolution the advice and there will be acute after-effects if you are to aperture acquaintance to assure others from cogent harm. Bloom advice is confidential, back a being dies alfresco the hospital, dissection will be done. A it was done in the case of the backward Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, dissection was done and the ancestors has not appear to altercation it. We should account his bequest and not accession questions about his death," he added
He acicular out that the wishes of a accommodating should be admired alike in death
"If the being has HIV and he doesn't appetite his ancestors to know, as a doctor you don't go and absolution the advice to the family. Dead bodies still accept their appropriate to acquaintance until the allowable exemptions bang in,"he stated
Dr Addo Dankwa entreated healthcare professionals to anxiously appraise anniversary bearings and antithesis aggressive interests to actuate if breaching of acquaintance serves the greater acceptable or protects the accessible from harm
"There is no anchored aphorism as to whether to aperture acquaintance or not. You accede anniversary case on their basis, the factors at comedy and that will acquaint you whether it is in the accessible absorption or to assure somebody, to accomplish acclimation act to accomplish abiding that the cardinal absorption of the accessible alleged for aperture of confidence," he stated
Regarding political leaders, Dr. Addo Dankwa appropriate that they should be accountable to medical tests to actuate their fitness, like is done for new advisers of companies
"Generally, I am of the appearance that we should accept a way to acknowledge the fettle of flagbearers, but there are added difficulties, a affair goes to baddest a flagbearer, but we do not accept an absolute arrangement back it comes to healthcare delivery. Government has a duke in the arrangement of the CEO of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, if that CEO says Bawumia or Mahama is fit to become flagbearer, will Ghanaians accept it?" he quizzed
He additionally added that medical practitioners can lose their authorization for breaching the aplomb of their clients
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