TABLE OF CONTENT
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH INSTRUMENT USED
SOURCES OF DATA
TREATMENT OF DATA
Social welfare services is a system of law programmes and benefits which strengthens or assume provision for meeting social need recognized as basic for the welfare of the population and for the functioning of he social order.
They are services oriented while social workers in social welfare services carry-out those services in the hospital that are considered as a integral professional part of the institution.
The aim of this long essay is a analyze the ways in which social work in social welfare department contribute to the maintenance of social order.
Social welfare department is found in most hospital in Nigeria the social welfare services are rendered in the hospital in order to promote the optimum health of patient populations.
The social welfare departments are usually interested in the social aspects of the patients illness treatment and rehabilitation’s .
The social welfare department does not work with every patient coming to the hospital, the department renders services only to those patients whose social situations are responsible either in causing the illness or in retarding the process of recovering.
The social welfare department may have cause to render services to all patience if there is any reason to suspect that all the disease in which a potential social problem is suspected.
The department may have to render services to all patients coming to the hospital with the confirmed cases of typhoid, , malaria or T.B.
The social welfare department does a lot ease the social problem that exist within the hospital or rather find a permanent situation into resolving it.
The social welfare department was establish in 1972 in the hospital by the colonial masters. It is in this department that social work practices is carried out extensively.
The social welfare department at the central hospital, Agbor has a staff strength of two and the department at the central hospital, Agbor has a staff strength of two and the department is headed by Mr. S. Okoh.
All clients who need social assistance are treated alike with out prejudice, irrespective of their social class ethics and religious background. The social situation of clients in the entire discussion are critically and carefully understood, to ensure that the problem is know because the client might not open up properly even after the first meeting with the social worker.
For the social welfare department to be able to perform their roles, the social workers in the department must exhibit these qualities.
Central hospital Agbor was established in 1906 by the colonial masters. The purpose of establishing the hospital is to provide medical services tot the colonial people and others living in the area especially the civil servants and their families I he earlier period, service rendered were free, because it was used to provide social welfare service by the colonial people. Though at present payments are made for every bit of services rendered.
The establishment has taken different names and undergone reorganization expansion and renovation to it present 250 bad capacity. It was once called and known as a clinic during the civil war, where the military personnel received treatment around 1967 and 1970. At this stage, it had four blocks and an emergency ward. It has increased both in staff strength and in the development of buildings. After 1992, when Delta state was created it also because a central hospital. At the moment, it is a referal center and has a school of nursing attached to it.
The hospital is headed by a medical Director with secretary to the hospital, chief consultants and head of departments.
This study is aimed at investigating the social welfare services and his benefit the merits and demerits of the social welfare in which it contribute to the maintenance of social order and the integral professional part of the institution.
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