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The prominent goal is to maintain, preserve and restore health by way of taking into consideration patient's anxieties, attitudes and feelings in order to help patients recover fully.
It requires social case – work skill in facilitating diagnosis, treatment and solving related or attendant social problems of destitute patients, abandoned babies and adult patients, ensuring their welfare and that of the hospital environment which at times could stretch beyond the hospital walls, though of course not without their attendant risks or hazards and required extra efforts and hours of service.
CLINICAL ACTIVITIES/STATUTORY ROLE OF THE DEPT.
The following are the statutory roles performed by each social welfare officer within the hospital.
• Attending to unaccompanied Road Traffic Accident (RTA) cases, i.e. conscious or unconscious patients.
• Attending to patients with protracted illness (without any family support) e.g. HIV / AIDS patients, psychiatric patients and other serious and contagious diseases.
• Attending to abandoned babies and adult patients to the level of transfer to any appropriate social welfare agencies e.g. motherless baby home, rehabilitation and vocational training centres and so on.
• Attending to patients who find it difficult to comply with drug regimen.
• Attending to destitutes and financially handicapped patients with medical and surgical needs.
• Attending to patients with admission and discharge problems.
• Attending to patients with transfer problems
• Attending to mentally ill-patients without family support
• Conducting ward rounds and counseling patients with all kinds of diseases and illness.
• Assisting medical personnels at critical times in attending to patients viz-a-viz carrying, holding, monitoring and wheeling of patients.
• Counseling of patients with social, psychological, economical and emotional problems
• Undertaking home-tracing to locate patient's addresses, relations, defaulting follow-up cases and those that absconded due to accumulation of hospital fees and other hospital transactions.
• Assisting in research work with medical before Para-medical alike.
• Supervising of students from various institutions on field work placement.
ACHIEVEMENTS
During the period under review the department recorded the following achievements.
HUMAN VIROLOGY CLINIC / ADMINISTRATION
500 people living positively with HIV/AIDS were counseled on proper adherence and compliance on anti - retroviral drugs and other medications 366 patients were exempted from drugs, laboratory investigations, x-rays, surgery, admission and discharged problems
AYINKE HOUSE
50 patients were attended to:
Discharge Problems: 19 patients had discharged problems and this was facilitated through letter of undertaking.
Drugs / Laboratory Investigations: 18 patients were assisted with drugs, x-rays and Laboratory Investigations.
Exemption from all charges: 13 were treated as destitutes and indigent with exemptions from all hospital charges.
LASEM
14 patients were attended to:
Discharge problems: 3 patients had discharge problems and this was facilitated through letter of undertaking
Drugs / Laboratory Investigations: 3 patients were exempted from drugs, x-rays and Laboratory investigations.
Counseling: 3 patients were counseled on drug adherence
Exemption from all charges: 6 destitutes and Indigent patients were exempted from all hospital charges
MEDICINE DEPT
23 patients were attended to:-
Discharge problems: 10 patients had discharged problems and this was facilitated through letter of undertaking
Drugs / Laboratory Investigations: 12 patients were exempted from drugs, x-rays and laboratory Investigations.
Exemption from all charges: 5 patients were exempted from all hospital charges.
Counseling: 1 patient counseled on positive thinking.
PAEDIATRIC DEPT
9 babies and children were attended to:
Drugs / Laboratory Investigations: 9 babies and children were exempted from drugs, x-rays and laboratory Investigations.
Transfer : 2 abandoned babies were transferred to motherless babies home.
1 abandoned baby with cerebral palsy was transferred to mother Theresa, missionary of charity home.
SURGERY DEPT
26 patients were attended to:-
Exemption from all charges: 25 patients were exempted from all hospital charges.
Repatriation: 1 patient was repatriated to Kebbi-State.
Drugs / Laboratory Investigations : 26 patients were exempted from drugs, x-rays and laboratory investigations.
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