Psychiatry Department

Histroy and date of ESTABLISHMENT: 

The Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences named Mowadat Hussain Rana in 2013 after the legend in the field of Psychiatry, Behavioural Sciences and of Medical Education. It is a full unit having 40 beds comprising of indoor, outdoor, Drug Addiction & Rehabilitation Centre, Psychiatric ICU alongwith the Conference Room for the academic training of undergraduate, postgraduate and the students of Psychology. The department has the facility of ECT and EEG catering the patients six days a week. Drug Addiction & Rehabilitation Centre was inaugurated on 20-02-2020. This is providing facilities to the patients having issues with variant drugs (cannabinoids, opioids, amphetamines, methamphetamines, LSD, intravenous drugs), alcohol, bhang and others. We have state of the art psychiatric ICU and Ketamine Clinic. We are offering a 21-days inpatient detoxification services in the first tier and later, providing rehabilitation services. The department has its own Psychometric Laboratory which has important Psychometric Investigations working under the direct supervision of qualified Clinical Psychologists. The department has its own library which contains the journals of high impact factor alongwith the availability of high standard books on Psychiatry, Psychology, Sociology and Literature. At this time, it is purely an academic, clinical department providing quality Psychiatric services to the people of Southern Punjab and to the people of adjoining areas of Sindh and Baluchistan.

                Department of Psychiatry, Sheikh Zayed Medical College/Hospital, Rahim Yar Khan started working in 1988. The Department of Psychiatry received the status of academic department and later in 2005, the subject of Behavioural sciences was added to the curriculum of MBBS and of allied health sciences. From then onward the name of department is changed to “The Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences” and it is serving as basic sciences as well as an academic clinical department.

Department of Psychiatry is fully accredited with PMDC, CPSP for fcps and MCPS training with effect

• Department of Psychiatry fully accredited for training of
  • FCPS (Psychiatry) on 24th April 2010
  • MCPS (Psychiatry) on 24th July 2019
• In May 2007 department of Psychiatry was recognition by
  • PMDC May-2007

PMC: 19 August 2019

DR. Ali Burhan Mustafa

Associate PROFESSOR & HOD

MBBS (KEMU), DCP Ireland, FCPS (Psychiatry)

SR.	NAME	DESIGNATION
1	DR. Ali Burhan Mustafa	Associate PROFESSOR & HOD
2	Dr. Urooj Zafar	Assistant Professor

Staff Strength

NAMES OF HOD OF SZMC, R.Y. KHAN.

The first faculty member of the college Dr. Khadija Masood was appointed as Assistant Professor in 2006. Later on Dr. Ali Burhan Mustafa joined the department in 2013 who is working as Head of department till date. The detail list of HOD’s from 1988 to till date is as follows:-

Sitting row left to right:  Dr. Shahar Bano, Dr. Waheed ud Din, Dr. Mahwish Adnan, Dr. Urooj Zafar, Dr. Ali Burhan Mustafa, Dr. Sadia Nikhet, Mrs. Sadia Batool, Dr. Muhammad Khalid, Mrs. Tesleem Majeed.

Standing row (1) left to right: Miss Saima Kanwal, Mrs. Farzana Batool, Mrs. Iram Gul, Dr. Nousheen Munir, Dr. Shazza Qazi, Mrs. Rafia Ghaffar, Mrs. Bisma Jamil, Mrs. Arisham Khalid, Miss Faiza Iram, Miss Raheela Ayub, Mrs. Fouzia Umar Daraz, Miss Ambar Ishfaq, Mrs. Javeria Nazir.

Standing row (2) left to right: Mr. Naveed Rehmat, Mr. Shafaqat Ali, Dr. Abdul Basit, Dr. Sarmad Mushtaq, Mr. Faisal Ali, Mr. Zafar Iqbal, Mr. Muhammad Hassan, Mr. Sagheer Ahmed, Mr. Hamza Arif.

FACILITIES

The department of psychiatry is a single unit under one roof. We have 34 beds (10 females, 12 males, 10 Drug Addiction Centre, 02 Psychiatric ICU). We also have an EEG room where we do EEG tests for indoor and outdoor referred cases. There is a psychometric lab in which various psychological tests are performed (like PANSS, MMPI, TAT, BGT, HFD, BDI, WAT, EPPS, RISB, RSPM). We do ECT in collaboration with anaesthesia department and emergency operation theatre. We also manage cases of drug addiction within limited resources. All general laboratory tests, CT scan and MRI are done in liaison with hospital labs. We provide 24 hours’ emergency services for the patients of Psychiatry.one doctor is always present in ward We have liaison with department of medicine, surgery, paediatrics, Gynea & obs and all other departments of hospital. We also provide facilities of forensic psychiatry under the collaboration of District Police, Jail and judiciary. We run OPD for 6 days per week. We have facility of online data of indoor patients. CCTV Cameras and security system of Psychiatry ward is outstanding. Pharmacy is also present in psychiatry department. Ketamine Clinic has been started and functional.

Prison Psychiatry Service: We are currently liaising with this he local district goal to establish a prison psychiatry service with regular input from our team. There are many deficits in this area and we currently have no secure facilities for treating patients with criminal charges properly either in our service or in the prison. Similarly facilities for rehabilitation of drug abuse, adult and child psychiatry, learning disability and forensic psychiatric patients are vital needs which can possibly be met only in the community either through a liaison service or a public private partnership in the community.

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Five Residents for FCPS (Psychiatry) and one for MCPS (Psychiatry) registered.
•  Three psychologists of our department have also been enrolled for PHD in counselling and guidance.

TRAININGS/ INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS:

• Many batches of MSc psychology students have completed their internship in the department of Psychiatry under the supervision Dr. Ali Burhan Mustafa.
• Mini workshops about psychiatric disorders and drug addiction with doctors of other departments and periphery held on different occasions.

TEACHING ROUNDS:

• One grand review round per week.
• Two mini rounds per week
• Ward rounds thrice a day

TEACHING SCHEDULE FOR PGRS, MOS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS:

• One case presentation weekly
• One Journal club meeting weekly.
• Clinico-pathological-conference weekly.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF PSYCHIATRY DEPARTMENT:

Undergraduate Training Program:

• 3^rd Year Mbbs:

In this session (2021-2022) teaching in the subject of Behavioural Sciences and Psychiatric illness is being deliver to 3^rd year MBBS class as following schedule:

• • 02 Theory lectures Behavioural Sciences / per week
  • 13 Lectures on Psychiatric illness throughout the session  
  • 03 Behavioural Sciences Practical Classes / per week
  • 04 Psychiatry Clinical batches / per week.
• 1^st Year BSc (Allied Health Sciences): 2 lectures per week,
• 3^rd Year DPT: 2 lectures and 2 practical’s were delivered

Post Graduate Training Program:

• Weekly Case Conference, Presentation

Psychiatric ICU

Prison Psychiatry Service:

Behavioral sciences 3^rd edition book Inauguration:

PGR of the month

Academic Mental Health Gala 2022

Pre-workshops

TRAINING OF NCDS DOCTORS AND WELL WOMAN CLINIC DOCTORS ON MENTAL HEALTH PACKAGE

FUTURE PLANS:

• Mou has been signed between Psychiatry department Rahim Yar Khan and IUB BWP. We are aiming to start a six month certification course of forensic psychiatry.
• There are several research projects are ongoing in the department of psychiatry as mentioned below. However, we have future plans of stentings our research area further more.
• Prevalence of Depression among the patients having Ischemic Heart Diseases (IHD) presented to Department of Cardiology, Sheikh Zayed Hospital, Rahim Yar Khan by Dr Sarmad Mushtaq, Dr Ali Burhan Mustafa.
• Prevalence of Depression among patients having Type II Diabetes Mellitus by Dr Abdul Basit, Dr Ali Burhan Mustafa.
• Genetics Study on Schizophrenic patients by Dr. Ali Burhan Mustafa, Miss Bisma Jameel, Mr. Shafaqat Ali bhatti
• Genetics Study on Bipolar Affective Disorder patients.
• It is increasingly recognized that some specific areas of Mental Health Care as well as patients of specific age groups have different needs for care. Therefore, along with improvement in already established “General Adult Psychiatry” and “Drug Abuse and Addiction Treatment” we have plans to establish following important services:
• Child and Family Psychiatry
• Learning Disability
• Adolescent Psychiatry
• Geriatric Psychiatry
• Liaison Psychiatry
• Rehabilitation