Medical Social Services

The Department is mandated to provide psychosocial support to patients and their families, addressing social, emotional, and financial needs related to illness and healthcare.

Services Rendered:

• Instituting social intervention to unknown patients through the hospital and informing the relatives on the challenges of victims of assault, accident or any emergency care
• Contact tracing of patients involved in road traffic accident
• Community liaison services
• HIV counselling and testing services
• Contact tracing of absconded patients
• Sourcing financial support for indigent patients to settle bills
• Repatriation services to abandoned patients
• Burial of unknown corpses with unidentified relatives
• Liaison services to social agencies such as faith-based organizations

Days of Activities: The Department runs 24 hours shift duties and covers all the treatment points in the hospital.