• KBTH

    Powered by Blogger.
    Wednesday 7 February 2018

    PHYSIOTHERAPY DEPARTMENT






    About the department
    The Physiotherapy Department is under the Medical Affairs Directorate and it provides preventive, curative and rehabilitation services to its clientele on out-patient and in-patient basis.
    Vision
    To become the best hub of Physiotherapy Services in Ghana
    Mission statement
     Working in a team with other Sub-BMCs, the Physiotherapy Department aspires to provide the highest quality of preventive, curative and rehabilitative services to its clients within available resources
    - Develop excellence in teaching
    - Develop our staff through programs to enable them to operate in an effective and efficient manner
    - To promote research and dissemination of useful information to the general public.
    Objectives
    - Provides preventive, curative and rehabilitative services to both in and out patients.
    - Involved in the conduction of researches and facilitation of training of new therapists.
    - Health promotion to the general public.

    Our Clinicians

    Our clinicians are made up of physiotherapist and physiotherapy assistants who have been trained in various specialist areas like, Hand Therapy, Bobath Neurodevelopmental Therapy, Cardio Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Parkinson’s Management and Stroke Management etc. To enhance efficiency therapist have been put into teams which includes:
    - Orthopedics/Accident Centre/ Chest Clinic Physiotherapy Team
    - Surgical Physiotherapy Team
    - Medical/Fever /Polyclinic and SME Physiotherapy Team
    - Plastic surgery & Burns Physiotherapy Team
    - Out-patient Physiotherapy Team
    - Pediatrics Physiotherapy Team

    Treatment & Services

    The Department offers:
    - In-patient services
    - Out – Patient services
    - Paediatrics services
    - Teaching/Supervising Physiotherapy Students during clinical postings.
    - Supervising Physiotherapy Interns(Local and international)
    - Partnership with other departments to carry out researches.
    - Intramural services.
    7. Research & clinical trials
    - Ongoing data collection on brachial plexuses injury at the paediatrics unit.
    - Ongoing collaboration with Zurich University and University of Ghana on research project.

    0 comments:

    Post a Comment

    Item Reviewed: PHYSIOTHERAPY DEPARTMENT Rating: 5 Reviewed By: Futurehitzgh