Patient Counselling Centres

Recently WORD has been sanctioned to run Patient Counselling Centres in the two Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and New Born Care Service (CEmONC) Hospitals in Namakkal District i.e., Trichengode Taluk Hospital and Namakkal District Head Quarters Hospital Namakkal District under Tamilnadu Health Systems Project (TNHSP), Chennai.

Under this Project, WORD has recruited six women Counsellors. The recruited counsellors have undergone a three days induction training from 9th-11th, November 2006 at Health Manpower Development Institute, Salem.

Besides guiding the patients in Out Patients Ward, the 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.