Patient Counselling Centres

From December 2006, WORD has been running Patient Counselling Centres in the Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and New Born Care Service (CEmONC) Hospitals in Namakkal District i.e., Trichengode Government Hospital and Namakkal District Head Quarters Hospital Namakkal District under Tamilnadu Health Systems Project (TNHSP), Chennai. From May 2009, WORD established two more Patient Counselling Centres with six more women counsellors in Namakkal District, Viz Rasipuram Government Hospital and Komarapalayam Government Hospital.

Under this Project, WORD has recruited six women Counsellors. The counsellors in the four Government Hospitals render the guidance on the availability of various services and availability of investigations in the hospitals, Doctor's notes and the explanations on drug consumption to the patients.

Besides guiding the patients in out patients ward, the patient counsellors render counselling services for anti-natal and post natal mothers, pre & post operative patients, patients with hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cardio-vascular diseases, carcinoma lungs/tobacco and HIV/AIDS infected and affected persons through one on one/ group counselling in the counselling rooms and the respective wards in the Government Hospitals.