Our Daily Diaries - Part 2

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Day 3 : Pusling

3rd of August 2010

As soon as the sun rose, we made our move to Pak Kuwu’s office for the mobile clinics. Things were a bit disorganized at first as the villagers arrived earlier than expected. The place was already full with people waiting to come in at 6.30 am.

Pasien nya sudah antri ba'da subuh

However, with help from the staffs, we managed to handle it appropriately. There were a total of 168 patients registered altogether. We were in charge of registration, blood pressure measurement, taking patients’ weight and height and helping doctors to dispense medicine.

Task delegations - Registration

'Cek tensi' darah

Dr Ria from BSMI helped as volunteer

Apotek (Pharmacy) - they did struggle to read the doctor's handwritings.

Obat

Take turns to handle registration - language definitely became challenging!

Height and weight. Most of them are underweight.

Thaqifah practicing her skills with little children at the apotek station

Some of us also took the chance to learn from the history taking and diagnosis sessions with the doctors. It became even more interesting when Dr Ria detected a heart murmur from a patient and with the patient’s consent, she allowed us to listen to it!

Alhamdulillah we managed to handle the hectic situation successfully

After lunch, we went to the Apotik (Pharmacy) located at Tasikmalaya town to buy medicines for circumcision. Apart from that, with Pak Asep’s help, we contacted the person-in-charge to get the clothings (baju melayu) specially made for the kids who were having circumcisions on the next day.

As usual, we had a post-mortem at night time and prepared for the coming circumcision event - decided to play Upin Ipin movies on the wall for the children and parents, task delegations, and contacted the doctors-in-charge for confirmation on a few matters.

Preparing the registration forms