THE  EMMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

Accident and Emergency department: The Accident and Emergency Department is a Level one emergency treatment facility which is open 24 hours a day, seven (7) days a week, staffed with licensed physicians and nursing personnel at all times. The department provides evaluation and treatment to patients of various ages and varying levels of illness from minor to critical. All patients presenting to the facility requesting emergency treatment are medically screened by the Emergency Department physician (triage). The accident and Emergency Department patients are then evaluated for response to treatment and are admitted to the hospital, transferred for further necessary treatment not provided by the facility or transferred in suitable department for continuous care after critical or discharged with follow-up instructions as appropriate in the following manner: Admission, Consultation, First Aid, Inpatient registration, External referral, Follow-up of patient within 48hours, Patient orientation in the ward concerning with his / her illness.