Health Services
Medical Services

Outpatient Department

The outpatient departments (OPD) provide care for patients from Monday to Saturday from 8:00 a.m to 4:00 p.m. OPD provides a wide range of curative health services and preventative health education, a malaria program, in-service training, capacity building and counselling, referral services ( to IPD, Mae Sot Hospital, and MSF for tuberculosis).

On arrival at the outpatients department patients go through a four-step procedure. First they are interviewed privately to ascertain the reason for their visit. Second a physical examination and record of vital signs is made. Third, if patients require more detailed tests then they are referred to the Laboratory Department. Finally, patients receive the most suitable medicine from the Pharmacy.

Severely ill patients are referred to IPD, with the exception of tuburculosis which is referred to Medecins Sans Frontieres. Skills and capabilities of the medics in the department are monitored in order to ensure a standard quality of care that complies with Burma Border Guidelines.
Child OPD treats an average of 41 children a day, more, obviously, on immunization days. Adult OPD attends, on average, 100 patients per day. Malaria represents about 10% of the cases seen in the Medicine Department. Although malaria accounts for 31% of IPD cases, it is only 7.4% of the OPD cases. This is because of the delays involved in symptom recognition at the local level and in getting cross-border patients to MTC.

Anemia is a common underlying condition in many of our patients along the Burma-Thai border.