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.