=====SOP of Night/Emergency Duty Policy=====



**Night Duty(Emergency duty) Policy**

  * One 2<sup>nd</sup>/3<sup>rd</sup> year resident doctor and two technicians are posted for emergency duty daily.

**Emergency hours** are as following:

Monday to Friday: 4pm to 8am.

Saturday 1pm to Monday 8am.

Sunday: 24 hours

  * 1<sup>St</sup> year residents are given 1 month observation posting and for 3 month regular posting in Hematology section, during which, training for all Hematology investigations are taken by post M.D. person.
  * After 1<sup>st</sup> year, examination is taken for evaluation of competence.
  * If they are found competent, they are allotted night duty on rotation basis, in which they can sign and dispatch emergency investigation reports independently on interim basis.
  * For technicians: The night duties are allotted to the technicians having minimum 1 year experience in hematology section. They are given training for all hematological tests during the routine posting and thereafter evaluation of their competence done by examination.