FEDERAL NEURO-PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL, KADUNA OFFICIAL WEBSITE

The Clinical Services department ensures the provision of appropriate health care to its members while addressing the effectiveness and quality of the care.

The clinical services department of the hospital has the following sub-department, units, and sections:

1. Medical Services Department: the medical services sub-department has the following section/units:

• General Psychiatry
• Addiction psychiatry
• Child and adolescent psychiatry
• Geriatric psychiatric
• Biological psychiatry
• Psychotherapy
• Forensic psychiatry
• Emergency psychiatry
• Neurology
• Community psychiatry

1. Nursing Service Department: the nursing services sub-department has the following section/units:

   • Quality assurance
   • In-service training
   • Compound nursing

2. Medical Laboratory Department

   Medical Laboratory services are an integral part of the health care delivery system as information or data generated from it plays a pivotal role in diagnoses, prevention, research, monitoring of therapy and or drug adverse reactions/toxicities, referral, and prognosis, that culminate into effective patient’s or management of diseases hence patients’ safety which is the hallmark of the health care delivery system. The hospital laboratory consisted of five (5) units namely, clinical chemistry, medical microbiology, hematology, blood transfusion services, and molecular biology. The laboratory services employ the combined efforts of technically competence laboratory professionals and automated equipment to perform analysis on body fluids and or tissues to produce precise, accurate, reliable, and timely laboratory tests report to the Clinicians so that the right intervention could be applied to the patients.

   • Chemical Pathology
   • Medical Micro-Biology
   • Hematology
   • Emergency Side Laboratory
   • Molecular Laboratory
   • NHIA Laboratory

3. Pharmacy department: the pharmacy department has the following sections/units:

   • Outpatient Pharmacy: This unit provides services to patients who are attending clinics for the first time and follow-up patients. 
   • In-patient Pharmacy:  In-Patient prescriptions are filled by the pharmacist in the In-Patient pharmacy. Medicines are dispensed and delivered to the nurses for administration to the patients.
   • National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Pharmacy: Patients of NHIA pay only 10% on charges of drugspurchased while the balance is paid by their Health Maintenance Organization (HMO).
   • Pharmacy Store: Drugs and consumables are supplied to the pharmacy store through Local Purchase Order (LPO) and direct purchase. When these drugs are brought in they are received by the pharmacist in charge of store and the internal auditor or his representative.
   • Quality control

4. Clinical Psychology Unit

5. Occupational Therapy Unit

6. Radiology

7. Health Information Management

8. Medical Library

9. Environmental Health Unit

10. EEG/ECT

11. Social Welfare Service Unit

    Social workers render counseling services to patients based on referrals from their doctors and also by intrusive casework or purposeful intervention observing the basic principles and techniques of social casework. Patients are counseled on the need to adhere to their medication as prescribed by their doctors, need to come for follow-up appointments, and encourage to deal with the social problems that may affect their relapse.
    REPATRIATION: This involves returning patients to their original places. Patients that are abandoned on the ward by their relatives after discharge are usually repatriated to their respective homes within the nation as the occasion demands.
    HOME VISITS: Home visiting is an important aspect of the casework relationship. It is a technique of social casework practice that involves going to patients’ homes to study the home environment and social relationships within the immediate family and to see how the home situation has contributed to their problems. Social workers pay home visits to the homes of patients that are on admission and those that have been discharged. This avails them the opportunity of monitoring their progress, assess the home environment of patients to ascertain the social and economic statuses of patients, and identifying environmental factors that affect such patients with the aim of offering effective social intervention services.