
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 …
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 …
THURSDAY 22ND NOVEMBER 2007 We introduced ourselves to a group of elderly people above 50 years of various background who are members of a society called “Warga Emas” . We joined them in their morning activity of Tai Chi and … Read More …
WEDNESDAY 21ST NOVEMBER 2007 We reported to Klinik Kesihatan Kupang. Jururawat Kesihatan Norolasikhin and Jururawat Kesihatan Hamzah divided us into 2 groups and took us for home visit for postnatal mothers and neonatal jaundice in various villages. Among the villages … Read More …