Day 1 and 2 in Sik District Clnic

Hello again from Sik District ....

Our Day 1 began with a briefing regarding our 8 day posting in this district by the District Health Officer Dr.Ishak and further briefed by the Penolong Pegawai Kesihatan or Assistant Health Officer Mr.Chin from 10am til 11 am.

We were served food and briefing was continued by Mr.Chin. After lunch , we had a talk by the Jururawat Kesihatan Suraya regarding the duties of nurses, primer health, home nursing, family health and school health.

We dispersed at`4.30 pm and there was a fogging session which was attended at 7pm.


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Our Day 2 began with a visit to the Mother and Child Clinic and we observed a nutritious cooking demonstration by the staff nurses there . It was an educational programme for under nourished children. We also collected data from the Family Planning Clinic, Immunization and Vaccination information and also on breastfeeding etc.


Photos were taken and i will be updating it tomorrow.-

Till then , cheers!!!!

1st day of district posting at Kota Setar District health Officer

27/07/2008

since 2day was our first day, we reach the district health office at 9am,but unfortunately the Pengarah was attending a conferance which only finished at 2.45pm. so we were told to come at 2.30pm to attend a briefing. the briefing was on Maternal Child Health(MCH), which was given by head of community nurse. the briefing ends at around 4.20pm. apart from that we also visited other departments within the district health office,for instance food and qality dept, and environmental dept.

KUALA MUDA, 27.7.08, (DAY 1) : STARTING EARLIER THAN IT IS THOUGHT AND FINISHED EARLIER THAN IT IS THOUGHT

KMDHO team here to greet you all with the morale of "it is good being earlier to work place"......

Thirteen of us reached around 7.45am rather than 8.30am as scheduled. We gathered at the lobby, a place which was so familiar to us (as we were here once this building was still functioning as SP General Hospital) by 8 am.

Gearing up with our coats and apparatus.

Doesn't this building looks familiar to you?

Boards directing the location of the Units.

Sharp at 8am while we were sitting at the waiting area in front of the X-ray department, suddenly a man around early thirties approached us with a sweet cheerful smile. He is Mr. Berhanudin (Berhan) a Health Promotion Officer a.k.a. Penolong Pegawai Promosi Kesihatan PP(PK) of Kuala Muda DHO (KMDHO). He invited us humbly to a meeting room and asked if we have taken our breakfast. He will be the coordinator for us throughout this 2 weeks DHO posting.

Mr. Berhan PP(PK)

Everyone was so eager to start the day.

Then sharp at 9 am, the respected lady incharged of the DHO, Dr. Umai Kalsom, Medical Officer of Health (MOH) or in local designation, (PKD) of KM DHO gave us a talk on the background, objectives, vision & mission, organisation chart, unit services, and highlights of the District Health Office. She was very enthusiastic in explaining to us. Every bits of her efforts was not wasted as she gave us concise information on what is the exact role of preventive and promotive medicine carrried out by DHO.

Dr. Umai Kalsom, Medical Officer of Health PKD of KM DHO

We will only highlight what is the organisation in DHO and the unit services available in this blog apart from the many more informative lectures because this will be the core knowledge for us in this DHO posting (of course we will highlight their job responsibilities in detail when we reached r

espetive department).

KMDHO consists of 4 core services:

DHO is lead by 2 persons in charged namely Medical Officer of Health a.k.a. Pegawai Kesihatan Daerah PKD (U52) and 2nd MOH PKD (U48). Under both of them is a Family Medicine Specialist (FMS) a.k.a. PPK (U48). FMS is the only special features available in Malaysia.

Under PKD and FMS, there are 4 main units:

1. Family Health Development Unit (Curative Unit)

A) Primary Health Care (Handle by PP U29, PKB R3, Attenden U1)

B) Maternal & Child Health ( JK U29, JD/PJ U17, Bidan U11, Attendan U1)

C) Lab (JTMP U29, PTMP U11)

D) Pharmacy (PF U29)

E) Nutrition (will update this fact soon)

This unit is lead by Medical Officer PP U41, Matron PJ U36, Sister KJ U32, Pharmacist PF U41, Senior Assistnat Pharmacist PFK U32.

2. Environmental Health (Preventive Unit)

A) Infectious Disease Control

B) Infectious Disease Control (Vector Borne)

C) General Health

D) Food & Quality

E) BAKAS

F) Occupational Safety & Environmental Health

G) Water Quality Control

This Unit is lead by Chief Assistant Environmental Health Officer a.k.a. Ketua Penolong Pegawai Kesihatan Persekitaran, KPPKP U36 and Senior Assistant Environmental Health Officer PPKPK U32. Each of the subdivisions (From A to G) consist of PPKP U29, PKAK U14, PKA U11, PKB R3, and PRA U1.

3. Health Promotion (Promotive Unit)

This unit is lead by Health Promotion Officer PP(PK) U41. The team consists of several Health

Promotion Unit JAV N17

4. Administration

A) Services

B) Finance

C) Admin

This unit is lead by Assistant Executive Officer PTK N32. Each subdivisions consist of PT (N17).

After Dr. Umai Kalsom's lecture, we had a short break and we were briefed on Primary Health Care in KMDHO by Dr. Othman Hj. Siru who is the 2nd Medical Officer of Health PKD U48. He is a very experienced doctor in which he shared with us his experience in his Preventive and Promotive Health care.

Dr. Othman Hj. Siru who is the 2nd Medical Officer of Health

After his lecture we went back at 12.30pm as our evening lectures are posponed to tommorow.

That's why i put the title as 'STARTING EARLIER THAN IT IS THOUGHT AND FINISHED EARLIER THAN IT IS THOUGHT'.

The morale of "it is good being earlier to work place" took place when Mr. Berhan suddenly approached us sharp at 8am. Imagine if he has to wait us for another 30 minutes (perhaps > 30 minutes with 'MALAYSIAN TIMING') and I am sure he will have bad impression on us. Anyhow, there is no harm in going to work earlier but being late will bring death (in the context of our job responsiblity).

Guys and girls, what i wanted to keen on is "second does matter!"

That's all for today folks. We continue our journey to KMDHO tomorrow. Have a good day!

KUBANG PASU(DAY 1): We hit the ground running.

Our morning has resulted with this bit.....

Antenatal clinic

The Kubang Pasu District Health Clinic in Jitra runs its antenatal clinic from Sunday to Wednesday every week from 9.00am to 12.15pm and from 2.45pm to 4.30pm. The team runs the antenatal clinic in four examination rooms.

The objective of this clinic is to inform the expectant mother of their present health, to identify problems, provide treatment and advice about their health.

Antenatal Clinic Staff
1. Family Health Specialist.(PPK)
2. Health Medical Officer.(PP&K)
3. Health Nurse.(JK)
4. Community Nurse.(JN)
5. Trained Midwife.(BT)
6. Nursing Assistant.(PJ)
7. Lab Technician.(JTMP)
8. Assistant Lab Technician.(PTMP)
9. Health Attendant.(AK)

General Procedure in Antenatal Clinic
1. Perform Lab Test.
2. Perform Physical and Abdominal Examination.
3. If there is a Problem, Refer to Medical Officer.
4. Counseling and Treatment.
5. Give Appointment Date.
6. Record.
7. End.

Antenatal Clinic Examination Procedure Sequence
1. Check the antenatal card.

2. Count the gestational period.

3. Interview expectant mother regarding her past and present health as well as her
nutrition and diet.

4. Preparation for examination.

5. Examine the patient from head to toe:

6. Abdominal Inspection:

7. Abdominal Palpation:

8. Inform and discuss findings with the mother.

helluuwsss from SIK DISTRICT :)

HELLO THERE BATCH7 MATES !!! :)


Hope everyone is well and good for the posting which is commencing tomorrow.

Below are the names of the groupC members posted to the SIK DISTRICT CLINIC from the 27thof July2008 till the 8th of August2008.

1. Tai Ket Yan
2. Sarah Vinothini
3. Petrina
4. Abiramee
5 .Rathiga
6. Shamala
7. Lionel
8. Adrian
9. Yugaseelan
10. Lee Chung Bee
11. Choo yin Peng
12. Nimala

Just to refresh your memory, i am putting in their pictures as well :)




From Left: Petrina,Lionel and Nimala






From Left : Sarah(Group Leader), Choo Yin Peng and Lee Chung Bee










From Left: Tai Ket Yan (Group Leader) , Adrian, Yugaseelan







From Left : Shamala, Abi and Rathiga :)








We are required to learn the inner workings of the SIK District Health Office which includes areas like CDC Surveillance,
primary health, family health, disease control, food quality control, occupational safety, BAKAS (water quality and sanitation), vector control and KPAS.


We will be constantly updating you on our activities. Till then, its abi signing off!!

Take care and have fun at the posting everyone!!

ALOHA FROM KUBANG PASU

Here is the group posted in the Kubang Pasu District Health Office in Jitra for 9 days from the 27th of July 2008 until the 8th of August 2008....

1. Assvin
2. Bernardine
3. Doreen
4. K.J. Linggeswary
5. Kuvaneswari
6. Lalithaambigai
7. Mohan
8. Mohana
9. Pravin Rajakumar
10. Sivasangaran
11. Stella
12. Valliamah

We are required to learn the inner workings of the Kubang Pasu District Health Office in Jitra which includes areas like CDC Surveillance, primary health, family health, disease control, food quality control, occupational safety, BAKAS (water quality and sanitaion), vector control and KPAS.

This is our team leader

We will be constantly updating you on our activities. We also have our team blog linked to this blog

The Team Posted to Kuala Muda District Health Office

We are a team consist of 13 elegant medical students who will be undergoing our 4th year training in Kuala Muda DHO from 27 July 2008 - 8 August 2008 (The end of DHO is the starting of the 2008 Olympic!).

We are required to learn their training, job responsibility, methods of interacting with the community, planning and scheduling, record maintainance, reports generated and dispatched, response to feed back from higher authorities, and prepareness for contingencies and emergiencies including outbreaks in Kuala Muda DHO itself. The scope includes family health, disease control, food quality control, BAKAS (water quality and sanitaion), vector borne disease and KPAS.

Below are the team members:

From left to right: Gan Chye Chung (Leader/Gan), Rathna Ramayaj (Rathna), Chai Huei Xian (Helly), K.Gaaitheri (Gaaitheri)

From left to right: Govind Parimalahr (Pari), Hong Chia Leong (Chia Leong), S. Kavitha (Kavitha), Leiw Yew Chai (Yew Chai)

From left to right: M. Dineshi Dias (Dineshi), S. Mogana (Mogana), P. Praveena (Praveena), B. Sivasangkari (Sangkari)

C. Thanalectchumy (Thana)

Hope that we could bring you lively and informative experiences in DHO posting!