JUABOSO DISTRICT HOSPITAL -

MENTAL HEALTH UNIT

2023 HALF YEAR REPORT.
 PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Challenges Beginning Of The Year

Intervention to address the Challenges

Priorities for the year

Activities undertaken within the period

Performance indicators for the period

Achievement within the period

Way Forward
 Challenges Beginning Of The Year

Insufficient funds for field activities

Occasional shortage of psychotropics
No trolley for emergency service
provision
 Interventions To Address The Challenges

Collaborating with other mental health units

for drugs
Few field activities organized and conducted
only in Juaboso and nearby communities
Written Memos
 Priorities For The Year
Conduct 12 outreach clinics

Trace 80% of defaulters

conduct 20 home visits

 Conduct 22 health talks

Conduct 11 case search

Visit each of the ten (10) faith-based healing centres twice in month by the end of the
year

To attend to all emergency cases

Organize and conduct four (4) community durbars

 Activities Undertaken Within The Year
Traced defaulters
Attended to emergency cases
Home visits/ case search conducted successfully
Conducted psychoeducation and counseling
Reviewed inpatients and outpatients
Referral in and out carried out
Compilation and submission of monthly reports
 Performance Indicators For Jan. – June 2023 The (OPD Morbidity)

Case 2020 2021 2022 2023

Schizophrenia 14 17 7 6

Depression 2 2 2 0

Bipolar Disorder 7 3 0 0

Anxiety Disorder 4 1 0 0

ADHD 0 1 0 0

Conduct/ Behavioural Disorder 0 1 0 0

Disorders associated with child birth 1 0 0 0

MD due to alcohol use 5 16 1 1

MD due to other psychoactive substance use 7 13 3 8

 Performance Indicators -OPD Morbidity Cont’d

Intellectual disability/ other 4 0 0 0

developmental disorders

Epilepsy 29 32 16 11

Delirium 14 15 2 6

Dementia 0 6 5 3

MD not specified above 4 8 2 6

Total new cases 91 115 40 41

Re-attendances/re-visits 1126 1205 489 458

Total (new cases + re-attendants 1217 1320 529 499

 Performance Indicators - Client Status

ELEMENTS 2020 2021 2022 2023

New Cases 91 115 40 41

New cases through active case search 10 1 0 0

Insured Clients 1073 1160 470 468

Non-Insured Clients 144 160 59 31

Relapse 27 12 3 20

Defaulters 102 172 78 58

Defaulters traced 83 150 54 31

 Performance Indicators - Client Status Cont’d
Recurrent 17 3 2 2

Clients with adverse medicine reaction 1 0 0 0

Attempted Suicide 3 4 1 0

Clients Received From Faith Based Healing Centres 5 3 1 0

Clients brought to the facility in chains or shackles 6 2 0 0

Referred In 3 6 1 5

Referred Out 7 7 4 5
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 Achievements
About 53% of defaulters traced
Eighty three clients being attended to on monthly average
base
Seven home visits conducted and carried out
 Four psychoeducation conducted
Attended to nine (9) emergency cases
Some pictures from field activity
 Priority for the next half year

Performance indicators are low for the first

half year however; we hope to achieve our
targets by working assiduously with the
needed resources available by the end of the
year.
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