·
The vacant post of pathologist and 2 posts of laboratory assistants may be
filled up without any further delay. The recruitment Rules may be amended
to provide promotion avenues for the biochemist. The additional equipment
like flame photometer requisitioned by the biochemist may be procured and
installed without delay.
·
The biochemist should display the various facilities available for different
categories of tests along with rates chargeable against each category of
test from foreigners, employees of corporate houses/PSUs and all bank
employees etc. on the walls of OPD and laboratory.
Ranchi Institute of Neuro Psychiatry Allied Sciences (RINPAS), Ranchi (27th
to 29th January, 2010 and 24th to 26th February, 2011)
A mental health information centre had been providing basic information about
various mental disorders since August 1999. RINPAS had a casualty block to
accommodate patients coming from far off places and arriving hospital after OPD
hours for the night to enable them to attend OPD on the next day. The relatives/
family members of patients could stay in Dharamshala. The OPD had better
seating arrangement with provision of toilets and drinking water. A full-fledged
canteen was running near OPD to serve tea, snacks, cold drinks and meals at
reasonable rates.
The registration clerk was recording the demographic data including name, age,
sex, whereabouts etc. and personal history, family history and case history of the
patient was recorded by the PSW and students of Clinical Psychology. The
patients registered in the OPD are being distributed among the MOs equally. The
Psychiatric OPD was manned by Senior Residents, Psychiatrists and physicians.
They spent on an average 30 to 45 minutes on new patient 15 to 20 minutes on
old patient; Psychiatric Social Work OPD was manned by Psychiatric Social
Worker trainee and Ph.D. scholar; and the Clinical Psychology was mainly
manned by M.Phil/Ph.d scholars under the supervision Clinical Psychologist.
They took about one to one and half hour to conduct personality/IQ test on
patients. The Psychiatrists, Clinical Psychologists and Psychiatric Social Workers
were patient, diligent and caring and treated the patients/relatives with civility,
courtesy and consideration. The patients were given free medicines for one
month.
RINPAS had its Pathology laboratory for conducting hematology and biochemistry
tests. The Department of Clinical Psychology made a lot of efforts to build up the
psychological laboratory and kept on adding new items of test. It had all
necessary tools and equipment and software needed to undertake tests. This lab
with 366 items for test had become the largest psychological laboratory among
all the mental health care hospitals of the country where largest number of tests
were conducted. The Physiotherapy unit located in a small room with few
equipments was assisting physically and orthopaedically disabled persons.
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