During the last two decades and more, this department has endeavored to help the ill, bewildered, worried, frightened patient who comes to the St. The Medical Social Worker (MSW) was, and is, the link between the patient, the Hospital's Medical team, its administration and the community at large and also to provide holistic intervention to the patients and families to deal with their crisis situation in terms of medical, social, psychological, economic and vocational issues. Medical social work department is located on the 4th floor in the Unit of Hope Block, office hours 9.00 am -5.00pm. Johns empower individuals, groups and communities.
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We practice our professional application of social work values, principles, techniques and knowledge of human development and behaviors, economic and cultural factor. We respond and deal with both crises and emergencies, personal and social problem. Over the years, the Department of Medical Social Work has grown in terms of personnel and activities, and in terms of acceptance of the role of the Medical Social Worker by the medical and para medical staff of the Hospital. Most of all, it has grown in terms of the help extended to the poor and needy patients of the Hospital. The doctors, nurses and other staff of the St. John’s Hospital refer many of the cases handled by the MSWs. The social work department offers a service to all patients and families within the hospital.We accept referrals from wards, doctors, patients and families themselves, as well as community and outside agencies/ organization.
Counselling Services /Psycho Social Intervention Programme in Specialty and Super specialty Departments.Pre child adoption counseling -Adoption Counselling.
Group therapy – Support group intervention.Psycho –social Rehabilitation Programme.Socio economic assistance/ Resource Mobilization.Training of post graduate social work students.Despite the implementation of National Rural Health Mission over a period of nine years since 2005, the public health system in the country continues to face formidable challenges.In the context of plans for rolling out “Universal Health Care” in the country, this paper analyzes the social, economic, and political origins of the major challenges facing public hospitals in India. The view taken therein holds the class nature of the ruling classes in the country and the development paradigm pursued by them as being at the root of the present problems being faced by public hospitals. The suggested solutions are in tune with these realities. Some authors have described the big modern day hospitals as “monuments to disease.” Indeed, this is what they will be so long as they function as institutions only for curative care, detached from the larger social, economic, cultural, and political context of the people’s lives which largely determines their health. Unfortunately, even this curative care has become unaffordable to many common people due to the policy framework governing health sector in the country. The fact is that public hospitals have become increasingly detached from the larger context in which medicine operates. If the public hospitals are to be made responsive to the health needs of the people, then problems facing these institutions ought to be located in the broader conditions (we may call these structural problems) that influence their functioning, rather than locating these in their inner working alone. This also implies that the solutions to these problems ought to be socially oriented rather than being guided by narrow managerial or technocentric approaches.