New Detox Unit at Corfu Hospital now in operation
Corfu Hospital
01 Oct 2019
/ 08:44
CORFU. The new Detox Unit at Corfu Hospital opened on Monday 30 September.
The Hospital Administration announced that the new Detox Unit is operating following the approval of the Ministry of Health in early 2019.
The new autonomous unit can run detox programmes for up to 6 people at the same time and operates on a 24-hour basis with hospitalisation for around 21 days. It has its own nursing staff and is supervised by the hospital psychiatric department.
The Unit has taken over a hospital wing that was partly unused (until recently it housed two wards for the diabetes out-patient department). The diabetes department has now been moved to another area on the ground floor next to the Thalassemia Unit.
The Detox Unit is separate from the rest of the hospital and along with the patients' rooms has its own independent lounge and dining area for patients as well as a group therapy area. It has a security system with alarms and security cameras so that access can be monitored. The hospital nursing staff was specially trained 8 months ago at the Detox Unit at Stavroupolis Psychiatric Hospital in Thessaloniki.
The new unit will cover the previous lack of detox facilities on the island and help residents (and others) to overcome drug and alcohol addictions.
It also helps reduce the number of patients having to travel elsewhere to take part in detox programmes (often taking their families with them) with the financial and social consequences that entailed. This, of course, doesn't mean that people from the rest of Greece cannot come to the hospital here.
There was a special event in the hospital amphitheatre on Monday for the opening of the unit. Hospital Director Phivos Kakavitsas spoke at the opening along with the Director of the Psychiatric Department Dr. Haviaras and head of the detox programme Mr. Mihalareas. The speakers answered questions from the hospital staff regarding the unit and there was then a tour of the new facility.
As well as thanking the doctors from the Psychiatric Clinic for their valuable contribution, the hospital administration would also like to thank the nursing staff from the Psychiatric Department. Despite the lack of personnel following the redundacies when the Psychiatric Hospital closed in 2012 the staff are working hard to support the opening of new units such as the one opened on Monday.
The new autonomous unit can run detox programmes for up to 6 people at the same time and operates on a 24-hour basis with hospitalisation for around 21 days. It has its own nursing staff and is supervised by the hospital psychiatric department.
The Unit has taken over a hospital wing that was partly unused (until recently it housed two wards for the diabetes out-patient department). The diabetes department has now been moved to another area on the ground floor next to the Thalassemia Unit.
The Detox Unit is separate from the rest of the hospital and along with the patients' rooms has its own independent lounge and dining area for patients as well as a group therapy area. It has a security system with alarms and security cameras so that access can be monitored. The hospital nursing staff was specially trained 8 months ago at the Detox Unit at Stavroupolis Psychiatric Hospital in Thessaloniki.
The new unit will cover the previous lack of detox facilities on the island and help residents (and others) to overcome drug and alcohol addictions.
It also helps reduce the number of patients having to travel elsewhere to take part in detox programmes (often taking their families with them) with the financial and social consequences that entailed. This, of course, doesn't mean that people from the rest of Greece cannot come to the hospital here.
There was a special event in the hospital amphitheatre on Monday for the opening of the unit. Hospital Director Phivos Kakavitsas spoke at the opening along with the Director of the Psychiatric Department Dr. Haviaras and head of the detox programme Mr. Mihalareas. The speakers answered questions from the hospital staff regarding the unit and there was then a tour of the new facility.
As well as thanking the doctors from the Psychiatric Clinic for their valuable contribution, the hospital administration would also like to thank the nursing staff from the Psychiatric Department. Despite the lack of personnel following the redundacies when the Psychiatric Hospital closed in 2012 the staff are working hard to support the opening of new units such as the one opened on Monday.
