Units Or Departments Found In Most Nigerian Hospitals

Units In A Hospital

The hospital is divided into several units each with various functions. The departments in Nigerian hospitals are similar with big hospitals having most of them.

This is what is also obtained in foreign hospitals. The major reason for this post is to draw attention to other aspects of a typical Nigerian hospital people are not familiar with. Although, there will be mention of the common ones.

Many of these departments do cross over between other departments or units. They are composed of both medical and non-medical staffs of different academic qualifications. This ensures the proper functioning of the hospital.

The list may be a little enlightening since some strange departments that seem not to exist may just be close to you. Also, the functions that some performs may be to some people insignificant. However, all departments are important.

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Hospital Units

Medical Record Department: This unit is saddled with the responsibility of taking patient records. They give cards for patients who wants to see a doctor while keeping them safe for future purpose.

Outpatient Unit: Man by doctors of various speciality. They attend to patients who visit the hospital as well as take ward rounds when it is time. They include gynaecologist, physiotherapist, general surgery, haematologist etc.

Pharmacy: Managed by a pharmacist, they store drugs as well as dispense with a prescription from doctors.

Accident And Emergency Unit: This is like a mini-clinic with a doctor always available. others are nurses and other staffs with first aid kits. They handle emergency cases.

Radiotherapy: They are a specialist in the use of x-ray in treating a tumor-related illness like cancer. Other services rendered here are general radiography (x-ray scan).

Renal Unit: They provide kidney treatment in the form of haemodialysis.

Sexual Health: This unit is not very common in all hospital but in special hospitals that offer, certain types of services relating to sexually transmitted diseases and family planning.

Account Unit: They collect taxes from patients with billing coming from various units. Manage hospital account answering billing question

Storekeeper: Takes orders for goods needed, purchases and supplies departments.

Wards: The wards in the hospital can be much ranging from the maternity ward, male wards, female wards, children wards, psychiatric ward, surgical ward etc.

Dietitians: Provide special advice on diets for both outpatients and inpatients. They work across a wide range of speciality like diabetes, cancer kidney etc.

Ophthalmology: General eye clinics that deals on everything that is related to the eye including treatment, testing, etc.

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Orthopaedic Unit: This department treats a problem that has to do with the bone. This includes muscles, joints, tendons, nerves etc.

Human Resource Management: Provide efficient and customer-based services to managers and staffs as well as to patients. They recruit, select, appraise, develop, and train staffs.

Social Warfare: Their duty is to help patients cope with illness and maintain stress while addressing challenges family face.

Engineer: Who takes care of the lighting situation if not for the engineers? They work to keep the hospital machines working efficiently.

Laundry: Keeps linens of hospital patients clean.

Medical Laboratory: Test to diagnose and treat disease.

Library: I must confess very few hospitals have this. Although most staffs have their individual library. They also contain health books patients can read to know more of their health conditions.

Hospital Administration: It is divided into the medical and non-medical staffs. They handle the paper works relating to the hospital including applications from patients for various reasons why keeping in touch with other government agencies.

Security: They provide safe and enabling environment for patients and staff

Gardeners: They take care of flowers while removing grown grasses.

Social Media: Handles the social media platform of the hospital answering questions from the public while clarifying issues. They are very vast in knowledge about all aspect of the hospital.

Note:  In case you have a unit you think should be included, feel free to add it in the comment section.

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