TUESDAY 4TH DECEMBER 2007 The programme for the day was environmental health and sanitation. However, as there was a leprosy patient that was going to be transported to Hospital Kulim from Baling district, we were allowed to follow this team. … Read More …
MONDAY 3RD DECEMBER 2007 We reported to PPKP Rozaidi Shamsudin in the morning. He taught us on data entry and analysis regarding the outbreak investigations such as dengue, malaria, filariasis and Japanese Encephalitis. We were introduced to the data system … Read More …
SUNDAY 2ND DECEMBER 2007 The topic of the day was outbreak investigation. The team reported to Pusat Pengawalan Vektor at 9 am. We then followed a team of health officers to Kampung Tanjung Luas to prepare slides for detection of … Read More …
Some background information regarding medical assistants (MA) Multi skilled, multifunctional healthcare providers for more than 100 years. Initially known as " dressers ". Often called the " backbone " of rural health services and ‘jack of all trades’ in hospitals. … Read More …
THURSDAY 29TH NOVEMBER 2007 The topic scheduled for the day was “Outbreak investigation” . PPKP Rosli Mansor briefed us on how a certain outbreaks such as food poisoning and cholera were tackled in Baling. In terms of food poisoning, one … Read More …
WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2007 A short briefing regarding non-communicable diseases was given by PPKP Cik Haslinda. She explained that the non-communicable diseases covered by Pejabat Kesihatan Daerah Baling included diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, family violence and others. The Baling district … Read More …
TUESDAY 27TH NOVEMBER 2007 We arrived at Pusat Pengawalan Vektor daerah Baling in the morning and reported to PPKP Rozaidi Shamsudin and PPKP Abdullah Yusof. Both the health officers gave a concise briefing regarding outbreak investigation. We learned that Baling … Read More …
MONDAY 26TH NOVEMBER 2007 We began our day with a short introduction to communicable diseases of control (CDC) from PPKP Rosli Mansor and PPKP Lem Kiah Kwong. We were then introduced to the Communicable Diseases Control Infection System (CDCIS) via … Read More …
The community medicine posting for Batch 5 began with a high note. Over a short period of 5 days, the 59 students of Batch 5 came, surveyed, and stole the hearts of all the villagers of Kampong Bujang. We began … Read More …
SUNDAY 25TH NOVEMBER 2007 We reported to Pejabat Kesihatan Daerah Baling to KJK Maznah Hussin. We were informed to help the other nurses to run a health campaign in Kampung Masjid Sera. We helped the 4-hour-long campaign. We assigned each … Read More …
