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Introduction:
The Paediatric department is one of the major departments in the Eastern Regional Hospital comprising of the OPD/triage and emergency, Kids ward and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The department provides 24hr service to all children below 12 years.
The aim of the department is to provide comprehensive and good quality in-patient health care services to children of the Eastern Region and beyond in a friendly atmosphere by motivated and competent staff in well maintained hospital infrastructure.
The current Head of Department is Dr. Diana Awintima Apanga.
Working hours: 24hr service every day
Services:
Emergency services: Paediatric medical and surgical emergency care.
Out-Patient consultation services on acute childhood illnesses.
Weekly Paediatric Special clinics held for children living with chronic childhood illnesses i.e.
Follow-up services with peripheral health facilities to improve referral system,
Home-visits of clients lost to follow-up.
Innovations / best practices:
Improved emergency preparedness
Monthly refresher training sessions held for staff
Close monitoring of clinic attendance and follow-up of children living with diabetes in the unit; where concerns and some emergencies were managed through phone calls while at home.
Quality improvement projects in 2022
Successful completion of the year’s Point of Care Quality Improvement Project on Emergency Drug Replacement; currently at sustainability stage.
Just do it initiatives
Development of standard treatment protocols on management of paediatric emergencies displayed in the unit for reference to eliminate clinical errors during emergencies.
Phone number: 0501425837
Extensions: 1031 or 1032
Partners needed, potential ones are welcome.
Kids ward:
Working hours: 24hr service every day
Services:
Admission: children 2 months to 12 years of age.
Isolation
Special ward
General wards
Health education
Counselling
Patient’s library
Visiting hours : Week days 6am -7am; 3pm-5pm
Weekends/Holidays: 6am -7am; 2pm- 5pm
Innovations / best practice
Monthly Best Nurse Award
Monthly refresher training sessions held for staff
Quality improvement projects in 2022
Documentation of emergency drugs (completed)
Missed dose of medication (completed)
Extension: 1058
Partner: Hon Michael Okyere Baafi (MP for New Juaben South)
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
Working hours: 24hr service every day
Services:
Neonatal medical and surgical emergency care.
Inpatient neonatal care services
Inpatient Kangaroo Mother Care
Health education
Counselling
Kangaroo Mother Care Clinic (KMC) preterm follow up clinic- Tuesdays and Fridays
Innovations / best practices:
Monthly refresher training sessions held for staff
Health advocacy ( Neonatal jaundice awareness and prematurity month celebration)
Quality improvement projects in 2023
Triaging of neonates (ongoing)
Development of feeding protocol (ongoing)
Development of transport protocol to reduce neonatal hypothermia (ongoing)
Just do it initiatives
Eye covering for babies undergoing phototherapy (done)
Daily weighing (done)
Phone number: 0201732107
Extension: 1062
Partner: Kabaka Foundation
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