HUMAN RIGHTS

CI VIL AND POLI TICAL RI GHTS ECONOMIC, SOCI AL AND CULTURAL RI GHTS FI LIPINO PATI ENTS BI LL OF RI GHTS

CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS

1. Right to life, liberty and security of person 2. Right to freedom from slavery and servitude. 3. Right to freedom from torture and cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. 4. Right to recognition as a person before the law. 5. Right to equal protection of the law. 6. Right to freedom from arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. 7. Right to fair trial and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal.

8. Right to the presumption of innocence until guilt has been proven. 9. Right to debartment from conviction for an act which was not a penal offence at the time it was committed. 10. Right to freedom from arbitrary interference with privacy, family, home or correspondence. 11. Right to freedom of movement and residence, including the right to leave any country and to return to ones country. 12. Right to asylum.

13. Right to a nationality. 14. Right to contract marriage and find a family. 15. Right to own property. 16. Right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. 17. Right to freedom of opinion and expression. 18. Right to participation in the government of ones country. 19. Right to equal access to public service in ones country.

ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

1. 2. 3. 4. Right to social security. Right to work and free choice of employment. Right to equal pay for equal work. Right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring the existence worthy of human dignity. 5. Right to form and join trade unions. 6. Right to rest and leisure. 7. Right to a standard living adequate for health and well-being.

8. Right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other circumstances beyond ones control. 9. Right to protection of motherhood and childhood. 10. Right to education, with parents having prior right to choose their childrens type of education.

11. Right to participation in the cultural life of ones community. 12. Right to protection of the moral and material interest resulting from ones authorship of scientific, literary or artistic producations.

FILIPINO PATIENTS BILL OF RIGHT

1. Right to considerate and respectful care, irrespective of socio-economic status. 2. Right to obtain from his physician complete current information concerning his diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. 3. Right to receive from his physician information necessary to give informed consent prior to the start of any procedure and or treatment. 4. Right to refuse treatment/life-giving measures, to the extent permitted by law, and to be informed of the medical consequences of his action.

5. Right to every consideration of his privacy concerning his own medical care program. 6. Right to expect that all communication and records pertaining to his care should be treated as confidential. 7. Right that within its capacity, a hospital must make reasonable response to the request of patient for services. 8. Right to obtain information s to any relationship of the hospital to other health care and educational institutions in so far as his care is concerned.

9. Right to be advised if the hospital proposes to engage in or perform human experimentation affecting his care or treatment. 10. Right to expect reasonable continuity of care; right to know in advance what appointment time the physicians are available and where. 11. Right to examine and receive an explanation of his bill regardless of source of payment. 12. Right to know what hospital rules and regulations apply to his conducts as a patient.