OUT PATIENT CLINIC  (OPC)

 

This is the out-patient department of the hospital. It caters for the needs of patients already discharged from the hospital.

The clinic is headed by ADNS Ohwadua.

 

UNIT ACTIVITIES

• Organizing workloads.

• Observation of patients' vital signs.

• Building relationships with reassuring by listening to and taking to patients.

• Combating stigma and helping patients and their families manage it.

• Ensuring that all patients that come to the clinic are attended to with minimal delay or no delay    at all.

• Monitoring progress of patients.

• Giving counsel and arranging support for patients, relatives and carers.

• Liasing with doctors, social workers and other professionals.

• Assessing treatment success at case conference and meetings.

• Writing and updating the hospital about the activities of the unit on weekly, quarterly and annual basis.

• Encouraging patients to take part in therapeutic activities such as Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Occupational Therapy etc.

• Administration of PRN, routine psychotropic injections and others.

• Admission of patients in dare need of it into the ward.

• Giving of health education tailored to individual patients.