How do you choose a Child Care Centre? शिशु देखभाल केंद्र

Child clinic is one place where most of child fears to go, but this is the place where mental and physical growth is assessed and appropriate guidance and treatment is offered.

ROUTINE PATIENT VISITS:

Routine or regular checkup of children should be done by giving well spaced time slots so as to avoid crowding in clinics. This helps in avoiding transmission of infection. Receptionist should be well versed and knowledgeable. Basic parameter assessment can be done at reception area also. There should not be delay in meeting parents to the doctor.

AFTER HOURS HELP

Sometimes any medical emergency can be there like deterioration of child health and any new symptoms arises for which you cannot wait until next day, so for that there should be provision of After Hours Help. A dedicated help line number should be there on which parents can have their queries cleared. On receiving end any trained staffed in pediatric field can be there who can give you right advice and support to manage child’s illness.

FURNISHINGS of clinic should be with MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY

When planning a pediatric clinic, furnishing should be always at a premium. It should be in way that it accomplishes multiple areas for facilities to be provided to children of all ages. For that reason, all things like furniture, rooms and rest rooms must be compact but to be useful for all reasons. As facilities required for a newborn differs from that of 15 year old patients, so should be furnishing of clinics like examination room for elder children should be separate, there should be different measuring instrument for each age of children, etc.

REGULAR SANITIZATION OF “TOUCH POINTS”

Touch points like door handle, electric switches, playing zone, couches, tables, chairs, etc should be regularly sanitized so that the chance of cross-infection are least because it is the easiest way to transmit infection. Various chemicals can be used to clean that surface like sodium hypochlorite, denatured spirit, chlorohexidine, etc.

FEEDING ROOM:-

There happens many times when parents are in queue or in waiting area, when child starts crying and feels hungry so to feed them, there should be separate feed area where mother breast feed or expressed milk can be given.

PLAYING ZONE:-

In pediatric clinic, to keep children busy there should be compact area where two or three playing equipments can be kept on which children can make themselves busy. Keep in mind that area should be regularly sanitized.

APPOINTMENTS AND WAITING AREA:

Since in COVID-19 situation, there should not be crowding of patients in waiting area as chances of transmitting infection increases. Regularly spaced timing slots can be given to patients, and if there is overlapping or there is mixed up appointments, there should be provision to ask parents to wait outside clinic and when their turn comes they can be called cuddleschildclinic.com.

Proper record of patients and treatment:-

Maintaining record of each and every patient is of utmost importance. Taking consent form for vaccination if any should be there. Complete details of parent and their contact numbers should be maintained. Treatment given of fresh visit or on follow up visit should be recorded so that if in future there occurs need of recalling treatment given, that can be done easily.