Privacy Policy

Living Tower Medical Services is bound by the Nigerian Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act 1999 and other relevant laws about how private health service providers handle personal information.

We are committed to complying with all applicable privacy laws which govern how Living Tower Medical Services collects, uses, discloses and stores your personal information.

The Privacy Statement sets out in brief how Living Tower Medical Services will handle your personal information. For further information or to receive a copy of our full Privacy Policy, please ask a staff member, or telephone the Hospital and ask to speak with our Privacy Officer. You can also write to our Privacy Officer to request more information.

Living Tower Medical Services will collect your personal information for the purpose of providing you with health care and for directly related purposes. For example, Living Tower Medical Services may collect, use or disclose personal information:

For use by a multidisciplinary treating team;
To liaise with health professionals, Medicare or your health fund;
In an emergency where your life is at risk and you cannot consent;
To manage our hospitals, including for processes relating to risk management, safety and security activities and quality assurance and accreditation activities;
For the education of health care workers;
To maintain medical records as required under our policies and by law; or
For other purposes required or permitted by law.
Personal information may be shared between Living Tower Medical Services to coordinate your care. We also outsource some of our services. This may involve us sharing your personal information with third parties. For example, we outsource the conduct of our patient satisfaction surveys to a contractor who may write to you seeking feedback about your experience with Living Tower Medical Services.

We may outsource information and data storage services (including archiving of medical records), which may involve storing that information outside of Nigeria. Where we outsource our services we take reasonable steps in the circumstances to ensure that third parties, including organisations outside of Nigeria, have obligations under their contracts with Living Tower Medical Services to comply with all laws relating to the privacy (including security) and confidentiality of your personal information.

Living Tower Medical Services will usually collect your personal information directly from you, but sometimes may need to collect it from someone else (for example, a relative or another health service provider). We will only do this if you have consented or where your life is at risk and we need to provide emergency treatment.

We will not use or disclose your personal information to any other persons or organisations for any other purpose unless:

You have consented;
The use or disclosure is for a purpose directly related to providing you with health care and you would expect us to use or disclose your personal information in this way;
We have told you that we will disclose your personal information to other organisations or persons; or
We are permitted or required to do so by law.
You have the right to access your personal information in your health record. You can also request an amendment to your health record should you believe that it contains inaccurate information.

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