But wading into the conversation, Acting Registrar of the Medical and Dental Council of Ghana has intimated that, patients do not have the right to determine the kind of medical treatment they should be given at health facilities. They can’t determine what the medically appropriate treatment is. It is the professionally determined, medically appropriate options that an informed patient can exercise an informed choice from. I have this condition and this is the treatment I need, even when that treatment has not been indicated. “…that will be very wrong appreciation of what medical jurisprudence or medical laws… is about,” he added.
