General Rights

• Knowing the names and specialties of the medical team providing your treatment, and being informed if there are licensed trainees or researchers within the medical team.
• Ensuring the absence of anyone unrelated to your care during your medical examination.
• Having the treating physician explain your medical condition in a language and manner that you understand, and providing an interpreter if the physician does not speak your language.
• Asking the healthcare practitioner, "Have you washed your hands?" to avoid the possibility of infection.
• Obtaining sufficient time with the medical staff during treatment.
• Knowing the potential side effects of the treatment and the possible alternatives.
• Knowing the proposed therapeutic procedures or measures for your condition.
• Knowing the reasons for referral to other departments, specialties, or hospitals.
• Refusing the proposed treatment method or means within the limits permitted by the regulations, while bearing the consequences after they are clarified to you.
• Being referred to a private hospital at the expense of the Ministry of Health when your condition is an emergency and a bed is not available for you.
• Reporting anyone who smokes inside or outside the health facilities to the responsible authority, which is in charge of issuing fines to violators.
• You have the right to (General Rights)
• You have the right to (Your Rights in Primary Care Centers)
• You have the right to (Your Rights in Private Hospitals​)
  

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