BRIEF HISTORY
The Telephone Department is an information centre which facilitates easy communication within the hospital and the outside world. It is equipped with a switch board for making local as well trunk calls. It operatives 24 hour services and all key departments and residential building are linked together via intercom. All members of staff in the department were trained at the Nigeria Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) Training School Oshodi, Lagos.
B. OBJECTIVES
The objective of the department is to enable easy communication in the hospital.
The department sees to effective communication and interaction between the various units and departments in the hospital.
In the event of any aggression by any patient, the telephone lines can easily be used to call for more hands in order to arrest the situation.
C. FUNCTIONS
To facilitate effective communication in the hospital
To redirect lines to their requested line destination
To allocate lines to various units and departments
To fix telephone boxes at different offices where needed
To repair damaged or non- functional lines in the hospital
To aid proper communication and free flow of information to the wards and unit
To foster timely rescue in case of accident or patient violence.
Ix To maximise productivity through effective communication.