00:00Former Health Minister and former MP Dr. Fuad Khan says the issues involving patient escorts and hospital attendants are nothing
00:09new,
00:10but efforts to deal with them were repeatedly blocked by union intervention.
00:15He argues that real accountability comes when workers fear for losing their jobs for misconduct,
00:22saying job security should not become a shield for indiscipline.
00:26When I tried to fix the escort system in the hospitals, the attendants, etc.,
00:35the PSA marched around the hospital non-stop that I had to bring in external help from the constituencies to
00:45help me there.
00:45They did a very good job.
00:47But the union created such a mess that you couldn't do anything with these attendants
00:55who work alone to themselves.
00:58He is also questioning statements from the chairman of the NCRHA that the situation was resolved within a day.
01:05The only reason he is saying that is because they are all PSA members and PSA people.
01:12The only exports are PSA members.
01:15So he may have gotten bored to backtrack.
01:21Everything that he said there is the truth because you can't get an attendant to do much.
01:26However, within a day, everything is in order.
01:29I find that was so strange.
01:31Dr. Khan also weighs in on reports of a missing patient from Mount Hope Hospital,
01:36a relative of a popular Soka artist who was later found to have already been discharged.
01:41But staff failed to inform the family.
01:45Dr. Khan tells us the incident exposes serious gaps in communication.
01:50He believes the electronic medical records card he introduced in 2013 could have helped prevent these failures.
01:58We started off with SIDAP.
02:00It was going to go into hospitals as a registration card, like a smart card.
02:06All the information would have been on that card that the patient has as a health information.
02:13That was stopped in 2016.
02:17Just stopped.
02:18It was working quite well with the SIDAP and the pharmacies, etc.
02:23The next step was hospital registration and record system.
02:27Nicole M. Romany, TV6 News.
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