Saturday, August 2, 2008

day 4

it was a public holiday...and resting day for all of us

DAY 3 of DHO posting

29/07/2008

today's programme was on geriatrics health, adolescent health, as well as malnutrients. To this we have to go to Klinik Kesihatan Kuala Kedah, to meet Mr. Romli(medical assistant). he brought us around the health clinic to give us insight of health care services available in the clinic. then the person incharge of each department brief us on activities conducted in their respective departments. at noon one of our aimst lecturer, Dr. saurirajan join us for the discussion, and gave us more information regarding the activities conducted by the departments. thats all.....good bye

DAY 4 and DAY 5 from SIK District Clinic

hello friends... sorry for the delay in report for Day 4 as we had some problem accesing to the internet..

Day 4 (31.07.2008) - we had a talk by the PPKP Mr Asri regarding Food Quality and Safety

details regarding day 4 will be added as soon as possible as we attended a field work with the PPKP to a restaurant for an assessment of the food quality and safety.

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Day 5 (3.08.2008) - at 9am, we had a talk by the

KMAM- Kawalan Mutu Air Minuman (PPKP Noor Hazimah)
















PPKP KMAM SIK DISTRICT- quality maintainance of drinking water

Functions to increase QOL thru safe drinking water … free of E.Coli in general

(indicator) . They include:

  1. programme for safe drinking water
  2. budgeting the programme in the district level
  3. interpret results of sample tested by Jabatan Kimia Pg … if not available, then sample will be sent to Jabatan Kimia Ipoh.

(clarity of water must be NTU<5)..>


  1. sample collected once a week for one year in a Thio bag which contains thiosulfate.





















5.check on the chlorine level in the treatment plant and give suggestions to the water
supplier (>0.2)

  1. investigate based on the reports given by the community regarding dirty drinking water.

  1. samples taken from sampling point of a blue box which is labelled as JBA

  1. other than the Thio bag, samples are also taken in universal bottles

















  1. hache meter is used which tests for turbidity,ph,total dissolved solids,chlorine.












  1. maintenance of water quality system

  1. water also assessed for temperature in a reference bottle where the temperature

should be between 4 to 10 C.













PPKP NOOR showing how the sample collection is done..





at 11 am .. we had a talk by the KPAS or Occupational HEalth and Environmental Health PPKP Mr.Zaki on the functions and activities they do.









Functions of the KPAS unit:

1. inspection of hospitals
2. farm and garbage disposal area inspection
3.licensing of kindergarten, poultry and rubber industries
4. harzard analysis
5. inspection of quaries
6. healthy setting of a workplace and so forth

other than that, they also participate in the enforcement of tobacco production control and from time to time, they do check on the NAtional Service Camp site to keep track of the facilities provided for the National Service candidates.

we called it a day at 1pm ... more to come tomorrow..