Social Assistant

Aim

Provide social services to patients demanding help

Provided services

• Hospital bill deduction
• Patient orientation concerning getting:
  
  1. Medication from health/social organizations
  2. Medical equipment needed from specific associations (rent or buy): walker, wheelchair, medical bed (air mattress, water mattress), oxygen…

• Providing free medication, given as donation to the hospital, to patients according to medical prescription.

• Acting as a link between the patient and the ministry of social affairs to receive his/her social affairs ID which permit his/her treatment in the hospitals for free in addition to some other social services

• Providing necessary communications to transfer patient to appropriate rehabilitation institutions when needed

• Communicating and coordinating with the "Red Cross" or "Civil Defense" or other institutions to transfer patients to/ from the hospital

• Communicating with patients to help them surmounting obstacles related to their adaptation in the community in coordination with their families
• Staying in contact with patients after leaving the hospital to ensure that they are following and taking their medications as prescribed

• Participating in establishing educational programs and activities for in hospital patients
• Establishing entertainment activities for children below 12 years of age during the visit of their parents to the hospital (on Saturdays and Sundays).

The Social Services Office always receives any kind of:

1. donations that support the treatment of a patient
2. medications
3. medical aids

Social assistant

Hiba Braish

Location

Ground Floor

Extension

2007