OPD means an Out Patient Department of a hospital. It is the section of the hospital where patients are provided medical consultations and other allied services.
It has following parts and services
- Consultation chambers where patients are provided medical, surgical or allied(physiotherapy, dietetics) consultation and expert opinion.
- Examination rooms where patients can be examined for any disease condition.
- Diagnostics which have radiology, pathology,microbiology and other diagnostic services and/or sample collection points
- Pharmacy which provides medications to the patients.