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ANESTHESIA
Performs anesthetic services

Head of Department: Siliciana Asiedu Mensah

COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRY UNIT

1. Psychiatric emergencies
2. Health education (schools, hospitals and organisations within facility’s catchment area)
3. Home visits and tracing
4. Review of clients and relapse cases


Head of Department: Gideon Antonio

TRANSPORT

Role of the Department
Transport

Head of Department: Anthony Akpo

QUALITY ASSURANCE

The Quality Assurance unit performs the following functions:

  1. Coordinating all quality management programs across all departments in the facility
  2. Providing expert advice on issues relating to total quality management (tqm)
  3. Developing training programs in tqm for staff
  4. Undertake monitoring/support supervision visits to all departments on tqm
  5. Undertaking compliance monitoring on key quality and safety standards
  6. Execution of operational research for tqm in the hospital
  7. Promoting and monitoring adherence to existing health and safety policies and procedures of the ghs/moh

Head of Department: Deladem Aku Ahiatrogah

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY

  1. Promoting the maintenance of safe systems and safe workplace
  2. Providing expert advice on issues relating to patient safety
  3. Undertake  compliance monitoring on key safety standards

Head of Department: Nana Prah

INFECTION PREVENTION CONTROL

The infection prevention and control unit performs the following functions:

  1. Implementation of policies on ipc by educating staff in the facility
  2. Advising on procurement of equipment and consumables for ipc
  3. Ensure maintenance of ipc equipment
  4. Monitor, supervise and evaluate ipc activities
  5. Liase with the hospital in-service training coordinators on training programmes in ipc
  6. Dissemination of information on ipc
  7. Conduct weekly training for all new staff

Head of Department: Patience Boateng & Sarah Apau

FEMALE MEDICAL WARD

Female medical ward also known as ward two is a 16 bed capacity female ward that caters for female client with medical conditions such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, pneumonia, anaemia cerebrocascular accident, etc. Admission to the ward is through the outpatient department and the emergency ward.

The various activities in the ward includes:

  1. Admission of patients
  2. Monitoring of vital signs
  3. Administration of medications
  4. Suctioning of patients
  5. Daily review by doctors
  6. Insertion of catheter
  7. Nasogatric tube insertion

Head of Department: Francisca Dananyo

LAUNDRY & SEWING

The various activities performed in the department includes:

  1. Laundry services (picking up of laundry, washing, drying, ironing, folding) distributing laundry to the wards.
  2. Sewing of hospital materials like bedsheets, curtains, theatre gowns, uniforms, etc

 

Head of Department: Stella Dey

  1. HEALTH INFORMATION/RECORDS DEPARTMENT

Health Information/Records Unit is the first point of call in the service delivery chain. The Unit also doubled as Statistics Unit. We run 24hrs services including weekends. It has three adjoining Units i.e. Maternity Reports, Achimota School Clinic records and Achimota transport Terminal records.

The Unit provide the following Services in the facility;

 

1. DATA CAPTURE
A. Registration of New and Old Patient using appropriate register/ Health Information Management System (HIMS).
B. Data capture on OPD Morbidity and Mortality
C. Data capture on Facility Bed utilization
D. Data capture on admission and discharges
E. Data capture on returns on deliveries.

 

2. DATA COLLATION
Collate data from the first to the last day of the month (e.g. 1st to 31st of July).

 

3. DATA VERIFICATIONA AND VALIDATION
Meet monthly to verify and validate data before transmission.

4. DATA TRANSMISSION
Transmit reporting forms either manual or electronic to the next level within the deadline (facility to District -5th of the ensuing month).

 

5.DATA ANALYSIS
A. Run simple frequencies for events and cases.
B. Cross tabulate events/cases by months
C. Compare performances with targets
D. Draw graphs to demonstrate performance and trends.
E. Interpret findings and discuss results.

 

6. REPORT WRITING
A. Reports on special events and activities such as disease outbreak response.
C. Holistic assessment report/analysis.

 

7. DATA STORAGE
A. Filing and retrieval of patient folders
B. Keeps all registers for life
C. File all tally sheets/ books and store in secured place.
D. File all reporting forms and store in secured place.

 

8. DATA REQUEST/RELEASE
Ensure all data requests are well documented and filed as evidence for both external and internal request.

 

9. DATA QUALITY AUDIT (DQA)
A. Select relevant indicators for each audit
B. Perform DQA quarterly
C. Write report, develop action plan to address gaps
D. Implement the action plan
E. Provide feedback to all stakeholders

 

10. DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION
A. Develop a dissemination plan for the facility
B. Identify and make a list of all stakeholders who will receive the disseminated information
C. Identify appropriate communication channels for dissemination.
D. Implement and document dissemination activities.
E. Monthly and quarterly report writing using findings from data analysis

 

Head of Department: Mr Theophilus Danso Asiedu

DOTS

 
  1. Administer tb medications to TB clients under direct observation
  2. Screen clients both at the facility and in the community for TB
  3. Give health talk at the facility and in the community
  4. Go for home visit and screen contacts of TB clients
  5. Give tb prevention drugs to HIV/Aids clients and contacts of tb clients
  6. Message: TB is curable  and the treatment is free
 

Head of Department: Esther Aboagye

GENERAL STORE

Receiving, distribution and supply
 

Head of Department: Wesley John Tordii

NUTRITION

Nutritional education/counselling at the various wards:ANC, CWC and Diabetic Clinic
 

Head of Department: Alhassan Zulaiha

WELLNESS CLINIC

  1. Blood pressure monitoring
  2. Glucose monitoring
  3. Breast examination
  4. Bmi checking and counselling
 
Working Hours: Mondays – Friday, 8:30AM – 2:30PM

Head of Department: Vera Ampomah Owusu

PAEDICS

Paediatric Services

 

Working Hours: Mondays – Friday, 8:30AM – 2:30PM

Head of Department: Indece Richman