Towards a shariah compliance model for healthcare centres with reference to spiritual healers:issues and challenges
Generally, a good healthcare centre comprises of qualified manpower, right policies and right procedures in providing primary care, secondary care and tertiary care for the patients as well as in public health. Other than manpower, healthcare centres must also look at social, religious and cultura...
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Kulliyyah (Faculty) of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia
2018
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| Summary: | Generally, a good healthcare centre comprises of qualified manpower, right policies and right procedures in
providing primary care, secondary care and tertiary care for the patients as well as in public health. Other
than manpower, healthcare centres must also look at social, religious and cultural factors affecting the
recipients of the healthcare services given by the healthcare centres. In this paper, the author will look at
some pertinent issues such as the need to have spiritual healers in any healthcare centre to help the
patients in dealing with fatal illness. The spiritual healer is to help the patient and give him motivation so
that he could have a positive mind throughout his journey in battling with his illness. Sometimes we have
patients who refused to listen to the doctor's advice. Thus, the role of the spiritual healer would be
important in assisting the healthcare centres and its management to convince him. Another issue is the
privacy, respect and trust between patients and doctors as well as with the management of the healthcare
centres. One of the duties of the healthcare centres’ management and doctors is, to respect the patient's
religion and his faith. These three issues are amongst the important issues which every healthcare centre
must look upon. Definitely there are a lot of challenges in addressing the above mentioned issues such as
the procedures, methods on how to execute these issues and most importantly the perception of the public.
In Islam, health care is one of the five important elements in which the Prophet SAW has mentioned in one
hadith to be taken care of. A study has shown that a nation-building efforts has no meaning without the
best public health and healthcare delivery system to the people. |
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