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Forensic and Medical Toxicology
Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Building
Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology in Dhulikhel Hospital was established since the Medical College was started. The Department deals with the medico legal cases presented in Dhulikhel Hospital along with the academic activity.
Activities:
- All the medico legal cases like road traffic accidents, poisoning, assault, homicidal etc cases are attended
- Classes to the MBBS students in 6th & 7th semester. The students are taught about how to deal the medico legal cases & perform autopsy.
DOCTORS
Pharmacy
Dhulikhel Hospital has own pharmacy at the beginning, 1996. Pharmacy department is located within hospital premises. It provides outpatients services till mid 1997 with one pharmacist and one supporting staff. Hospital started in-patient wards services as well as inpatient ward supply system after 1997. Department has upgraded regularly. Since 1999 the department started to prepare certain extemporaneous medicines for patients. Along with dispensing the drugs it also provide proper patient counselling on medication and its indications to aid compliance. A new pharmacy block was opened in November 2009.
The department has other activities such as
Organizational: Pharmacy has organized drug and therapeutic committee (DTC) in hospital. It has vital role to deliver informative notes related to drugs. List of drugs are published in 2009. It contain name of drug used in hospital with content and dosage form.
Drug information center (DIC): was established in 2000. It provides information about drugs to doctors, nurses, medical students and paramedicals.
We prepared certain extemporaneous preparations as required as departments.
Moisturizing cream
Petroleum Jelly (repacked)
Potassium hydroxide
Potassium iodide
Salicylic acid 5%,10%,20% and 40%
Tri-chloro acetic acid
White field ointment
Sodium bicarbonate ear drops
Orthopedic department:
Malish for muscle relaxation.
Other products:
Activated charcoal
GTN ointment
Ichthammol ointment
Liquid soap
Normal saline nasal drops
Potassium permanganate
Suppositories
Bisacodyl
Diazepam
Diclofenac
Paracetamol
Ultrasound gel
Zinc oxide ointment
Orthopedics and Traumatology
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The department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of Dhulikhel Hospital has been providing services since 2004. Since then; its services have been expanded each year. At present, this department has been providing sub-specialty oriented services traumatic and non – traumatic orthopedics problems.
A. Outpatient Services
Outpatient services are available 6 days a week. The number of patients has been increasing every year. The outpatient clinic consists of two rooms with each day divided for specific sub-specialty. This department is highly sophisticated one in the entire region as well as in the country.
B. Operative Services
The department is capable of conducting all kinds of major and minor operative procedures that includes traumatic and non-traumatic alignments and reconstructive procedures.
Our operation theater is well equipped with laminar air flow, C- arm and operating microscope.
Various major orthopaedic surgeries
- Bankart repair
- Trauma
- Infection
- Arthroscopy
- Tumor
- Arthroplasty
- Spine
- Hand and microsurgery
- And various other minor procedures
C. Emergency services
Our department has been providing a 24 hour emergency service for the patients.
D. Inpatient services:
Twenty six beds, allocated for orthopaedic and traumatology ward are occupied most of the time. The ward consist of post operative room, infective room and general ward .
There is separate procedure room where minor orthopedics procedures like cast application, cast removal, debridemet, dressing , percutaneous pinning, pin removal , suturing ,suture/staples removal are performed.
F. Academic activities
Providing teaching faculties for various academic programs run under KUSMS including MBBS, BSc Nursing, BPT, BNS
Intra department presentation twice a week which includes journal club, topic reviews and case presentations.
G. Community Services:
Regular visit to outreach centers of the hospital as per schedules.
Organizing various orthopaedic health camps by the department.
Future plan
To establish trauma centre.
To develop orthopedic subspecialty including spine, adult reconstruction and sports medicine.
To start orhosis and prosthesis workshop.
Doctors
Otorhinolaryngology (ENT)
ENT-HNS department in Dhulikhel hospital started OPD services since 2005 with main aim to provide preventive, curative and rehabilitative services to those in need. The department now has 13 bedded in patient services. The department is providing outpatient services to nearly 70 patients per day. Also, it is providing both major and minor surgical procedures of nearly 12 per day.
OPD services:
Patient examination equipment's are adequate for examining one patient at a time with a patient sitting chair, headlight, suction machine etc, fiber optic endoscopic facility, case recording, two faculties can work at a time.
Procedures done in OPD:
- Wax removal,
- IG packing,
- Chemical cauterization,
- Removal of foreign body in ear and nose,
- Anterior nasal packing,
- Flexible nasopharyngolaryngoscopy,
- Pure Tone Audiometry,
- Vertigo test ,
- Incision and drainage,
- Ear lobe repair,
- Major and minor dressings.
Operative services:
- Ear surgeries: Myringotomy with/ without ventilation tube, Myringoplasty, Tympanoplasty, ossiculoplasty, Modified radical mastoidectomy,
- Nose surgeries: Septoplasty, SMR, Rhinoplasty, Functional endoscopic sinus surgery, maxillectomies.
- Neck surgeries: Different Thyroidectomies, Sistrunk operation, excision of branchial cyst and fistula, surgery of salivary glands, neck dissections, neck biopsies and other minor neck surgeries.
- Phonosurgery: MLS in vocal cord polyp, nodules.
Community visits and health camps in different outreach centers teaching:
- MBBS students
- Intern doctors
- Nursing students
- Paramedics
Academic:
- Postgraduate training in ENT
- Higher education training of staffs in different sub specialty in ENT.
Future plans:
- To expand Audiology and Speech and Language Pathology services
- To increase Microlaryngoscopic surgeries
- Hearing Aid Clinic
- Laser assisted surgeries
- Assessment and treatment of OSAS
- Image guided sinus surgeries (for the 1st time in Nepal)
