Patient Rights & Responsibilities

It is your right as a patient of Aster Wayanad Hospital to be informed and to receive information about your plan of treatment, cost, privacy and health care facilities.

You can request for special preferences based on spiritual and cultural needs (which includes dietary preferences and worship requirements).
Respect for personal dignity and privacy during examination, procedures and treatment.
Right for protection from physical abuse or neglect.
Right for maintenance of confidentiality of information regarding your illness and treatment.
Right to refuse the treatment offered by the hospital.
Right to refuse / give Informed consent before transfusion of blood and blood products, anesthesia, surgery, initiation of any research protocol and any other invasive / high risk procedures / treatment.
Right to complain .
The methods for lodging complaints are provided by the hospital.
Right to access your clinical records permissible as per the code of medical ethics and statutory requirements.
Righ to get information on plan of care, progress and information of your health care needs.