5.3.2.20. Private Health Institutions

Tapion Private Hospital 

Doctors:

• Collecting patient samples to be transported to laboratories.
• Reviewing laboratory results for tests performed.
• Accurately diagnosing patients based on clinical presentations.
• Registering patients in the Electronic Medical Record System (EMRS) based on defined syndromes.
• Registration of all NCD/MH patients and patients with notifiable communicable diseases in EMRS.
• Collecting data on notifiable communicable diseases.
• Collecting data on other communicable diseases of interest.
• Collecting data on non-communicable diseases (including NCD lifestyle risk factors such as smoking, level of alcohol consumption, weight, and physical activity level status).
• Recognizing and reporting notifiable diseases to the EpiU/MOH.
• Recognizing and reporting adverse events related to medicines or vaccination to relevant personnel (specifically those within the Extended Programme on Immunization (EPI)).
• Verification of all epidemiologic surveillance data collected.
• Sharing patient data with EpiU/MOH to be integrated for data analysis.
• Reporting perinatal deaths including near missed cases and neonatal acute public health emergencies and communicable diseases
• to MOH with priority.
• Participating in surveillance activities by sharing accurate and timely information on patients to relevant bodies.
• Collaborating with public health officers (MOH) in outbreak investigations and control measures.
• Ensuring that patients and their family members follow surveillance and response interventions during APHE.

Accident and Emergency:

• Collect and report data on cases of road traffic injuries and violence (gender-based violence, interpersonal violence, suicide, and rape).

Nurses:

• Collecting patient samples for transport to lab or storage.
• Reviewing laboratory results for tests performed.
• Registering patients in the Electronic Medical Record System (EMRS) based on defined syndromes.
• Registration of all NCD/MH patients and patients with notifiable communicable diseases in EMRS.
• Collecting data on notifiable communicable diseases.
• Collecting data on other communicable diseases of interest.
• Collecting data on non-communicable diseases (including NCD lifestyle risk factors such as smoking, level of alcohol consumption, weight, and physical activity level status).
• Recognizing and reporting notifiable diseases to doctor(s).
• Recognizing and reporting adverse events related to medicines or vaccination to doctors.
• Participating in surveillance activities by providing accurate and timely information on patients to the doctor(s).
• Collaborating with public health officers (MOH) in outbreak investigations and control measures.
• Ensuring that patients and their family members follow surveillance and response interventions during APHE

Health Aids

• Adherence to transportation protocols for safe transportation. 

Orderlies 

• Adherence to transportation protocols for safe transportation. 

Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Nurses/ Nurses:

• Collecting patient samples to be transported to laboratories.
• Reviewing laboratory results for tests performed.
• Collecting data on notifiable communicable diseases.
• Collating data on notifiable communicable diseases and analyzing trends.
• Collaborate with other healthcare workers, to provide specialist knowledge and expert advice on types of infections identified in patients and how the infections should be treated.
• Monitoring staff infection related to treatment of patients and developing measures to control these.
• Monitoring and alerting any suspected severe respiratory infections (SARI) cases.
• Conducting outbreak investigations
• Implementing and overseeing infection control measures
• Monitoring compliance with IPC protocols
• Educating both healthcare workers and patients on how infection prevention and control and the importance of it.
• Assist in implementing and enforcing infection prevention and control measures.
• Assist in the training of healthcare staff (including the development of material needed for training sessions)
• Assist in the coordination of response strategies during outbreaks.

Pathologist

• Review the tests done by medical technologist

Senior Medical Technologist

• Review the tests done by medical technologist (in the absence of pathologist)
• General testing (NCDs, communicable diseases and risk factors)

Medical Technologists

• General testing (NCDs, communicable diseases and risk factors)

Medical Laboratory Assistant

• General testing (NCDs, communicable diseases and risk factors)​

Phlebotomist

• Responsible for sample preparation, collection and sorting
• Responsible for the organization and packaging of results in adherence with protocols and procedures

Cytology Technician

• Responsible for cytology preparation and initial screening of gynecological smears (pap smears)

Histology Technician

• Responsible for the preparation of tissue samples for the pathologist to read
   

Quality Manager

• Reviews and signs off on laboratory results
• Reports to the Pathologist 
• Overseas all the disciplines / departments
• Develop and implement a quality management system for the lab
• Ensures compliance with the quality management system in place

Safety Officers 

Usually a medical tech

• Responsible for developing the safety programme for the laboratory
• Responsible for implementing the safety programme for the laboratory

Microbiologists

• Antibiotic susceptibility and other communicable diseases

Lab Professionals:

• Collecting laboratory samples in a timely manner, ensuring that control measures are taken, so that samples are viable.
• Analyzing laboratory samples to confirm disease diagnoses.
• Identifying / confirming cases of infectious diseases
• Reporting cases of infectious diseases (results derived from analysis of samples)
• Developing antibiogram from laboratory data.
• Reporting of antibiogram results with EpiU/MOH
• Assisting in APHE or outbreaks by timely testing and analysis of sample