Basically, a hospital is a centre of patient care where anybody needing the services of a doctor or nursing can approach for adequate help support and care, however, caring for patient is not the only function performed by the hospital. Some of the other important functions are;
The hospitals of today are actively involved in the prevention of diseases along with the basic function of caring for the sick. Public Health Promotion of individual and community health is another important function of modern hospitals. Almost every big and important hospital also functions as the training centre for hospital specialists like the doctor, the nurse and others. The hospital as a training centre has the spot experience of dealing with patients under the over all supervision of the teacher, who also works as the specialist in the hospital. For the same reason for which hospitals are excellent training centers for doctors and nurses and other hospital, they are also so for important researches in the field of sciences, medicines and nursing.