Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Medical Clinic 1 UMMC Session table


For your convenience, here are the specialized clinics in attendance in the Medical Clinic of the University of Malaya Medical Center (UMMC commonly referred to as the University Hospital) or in Bahasa Malaysia, Pusat Perubatan Universiti Malaya (PPUM) situated in Jalan Universiti, Petaling Jaya:

duty roster Medical Clinic, University Hospital

DayMorningAfternoon
MondayRenalRHD and ID
TuesdaySkin, ID, GE/Hepatitis
WednesdaySLE and ChestINR, Palliative, Wellness
ThursdayCIHDGastro, Rheumatology
FridaySkin, IDAsthma, Geriatric

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Alert - Avoid fresh sugarcane juice

避免饮用新鲜甘蔗水
Avoid Drinking Fresh Sugar Cane Juice

请花2分钟来读这篇报道,这是我朋友传给我的,他爸是在新加坡的卫生局工作。
Please take 2 mins to read this. This email was sent by a friend whose father is working with the Ministry of the Environment in S'pore.

健康报道 - 有关甘蔗饮料
Health News - About Sugar Cane Drinks

朋友的父亲替政府卫生检查工作, 是他把这项信息传开的。他们的工作就是要检查小贩的卫生(包刮食物,环境卫生等等)。他们发现甘蔗水是最不卫生的,它含有超标的细菌。
A friend whose father works for the government health inspection passed on his info.
Their job is to inspect all hawkers, their cooked food, their store hygiene, etc.
They found sugar cane juice has the highest content of bacteria among all food. In fact, it has exceeded the set limit.

从此, 他们必须找出原因。他们去了所有的甘蔗摊子查看小贩们怎么处理甘蔗,洗杯子与及整个过程。
可是查不出什么来。

Hence, these guys had to find out why.
They went round all sugar cane stores and watched the way the hawkers handled
their sugar cane, wash their glasses, their entire procedure.
But they couldn't find the problem.

有一天,他们逗留直到摊子收摊,结果发现骇人的事实。
One day, they stayed till closing time and discovered some shocking facts!

每当摊主在收摊后就会用洗洁剂来洗地板。想想,其余的甘蔗多数是竖立的放在摊子旁边,它的下部肯定是接触到地面。甘蔗是多孔的,可想而知,甘蔗就会吸收所有周边的水。除了肥皂水,小贩们鞋底的污物,猫的尿尿等等,都会被吸收。到了第二天,老板就会拿那些渣成水来卖。

Whenever, the hawkers closed their stores, they would wash the floor with detergent..
As we know, the remaining sugar canes will be placed at the back of the store,
vertically standing and as sugar canes are very porous, they tend to absorb whatever liquid around them. Besides the soapy water, the dirt on hawkers' boots, cats' urine, etc, will all be absorbed??

看了这篇文章,每当我在小贩中心进食,我都会劝告我的朋友关于甘蔗水的事,我还会停止饮用我最爱的~甘蔗水。

Now, whenever I eat at a hawker centre, I would warn all my friends about this and of course I stopped drinking my favorite sugar cane juice.

还有一个超爱喝甘蔗水的朋友,她怀孕了, 还时常喝甘蔗水。有一天,她流产了,而且胎儿已经六、七个月。当医生做尸检以找出胎死腹中的原因,医生发现有大量化学物质的痕迹亦出现在猫尿。

A friend, who loved sugar cane juice, was pregnant. She was always drinking sugar cane juice. Anyway, one day she miscarried and the fetus was already like 6 or 7 months old. When the doctors did an autopsy to find out why all of a sudden the fetus had died inside her. They found traces of some chemical substance, which was found in cat urine... Large traces of it.

当它不会对成人构成危害,但对婴孩却是有毒的。更何况胎儿? While it would not be able to harm adults, it was extremely toxic to babies, what more a fetus?

所以他们尝试确定为何这些猫尿会出现在胎儿。这意味着猫尿被母体吃进并消化了,不是吗? 他们得出的最逻辑结论就是小贩把甘蔗放在潮湿且肮脏的地板,而不可能假设杂散的猫尿尿在甘蔗上或其周围。所以,下次你购买最爱的甘蔗水前,想清楚。。。

So they tried to determine how this cat urine thing could have ended up in the fetus.
This meant that it had to be digested by the mother, right? And the only logical conclusion they could come up with was that since these sugar cane juice stall holders just leave the canes lying around on the wet and dirty floor, it would not be impossible to think that stray cats could have peed on those sugar canes or near those sugar canes. So think carefully the next time you order that favorite sugar cane juice!

请转发给所有新马的朋友。一起行动让这世界变得更好及安全,以迎接下一代的到来。。。

Please pass this on to everyone you know in S'pore & M'sia. Let's take action to make this world a better & safer place for all of us & the generations to come..

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Health checks blood donation Damansara Utama

There will be a health camp (health checks) cum blood donation at Dewan Serbaguna Damansara Utama (Damansara Utama Community Hall) on Sunday, 13th September, 2009, from 9.30am onward. Light refresh will be served, courtesy of Dr. Cheah Wing Yin, ADUN Damansara Utama (Ahli Dewan Undang Negeri or State Assemblyman of Damansara Utama, Petaling Jaya). Get your blood tested for cholesterol, diabetes, blood pressure, etc. for free.

Event: Health camp cum blood donation
Place: Balairaya Damansara Utama (Dewan Serbaguna Damansara Utama)
Time: 9.30am onward, Sunday 13th September 2009

Location Map Balairaya Damansara Utama



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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Kidney Health Check at Hospital Serdang


The National Kidney Foundation of Malaysia is sponsoring Kidney Health Check at the following locations:

Pusat Konvensyen Sungai Siput
Taman Tun Sambatan
31100 Sungai Siput
Perak
Tuesday 10th March 2009
8.30am to 3.00pm


Hospital Serdang
PutraJaya
Selangor
Thursday, 12th March 2009
8.30am to 3.00pm.

The following will be tested: Urine, Blood pressure, Albumin, Blood sugar/glucose, Height, Weight, BMI, Other: Random Total Cholesterol and waist circumference

Cost is only RM2 and the balance of the full RM37 cost will be sponsored by the National Kidney Foundation:

Location map of Hospital Serdang

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Location map of Pusat Konvensyen Sungai Siput

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Location map of Pusat Konvensyen Sungai Siput Taman Tun Sambatan

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Aerobic exercise health check fat BMI

This Friday June 13, 2008, Pathmanathan will bring a machine to measure body vital health statistics like body fat, BMI (body mass index) or Quetelet index. BMI is a statistical measure of the ratio of the weight of a person scaled to his or her height. BMI was invented more by a Belgian by the name of Adolphe Quetelet. Body mass index is defined as the individual's body weight divided by the square of their height. The formulas universally used in medicine produce a unit of measure of kg/m2. Body mass index may be accurately calculated using either of the formulas below.

BMI SI unitweight (kg)/height2(m2)
BMI US units[weight(lb)x703]/height(in.)


Aerobic exercise will be from 7 - 8am as usual. Measurement of vital body health statistics like BMI will be after 8am.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Petaling Jaya SS3, aerobic exercise led by K. Pathmanathan

K. Pathmanathan, aerobic exercise instructor

Above is a photo of K. Pathmanathan, 68 year old and really fit. Mr. Pathmanathan was a former Sports Ministry personnel and now volunteers to lead aerobic exercise sessions in various places and one of them is at the covered basketball court, next to the community hall of Section SS3. The exercise sessions are livened by music using his own audio system comprising a P.A. (public address) system, microphone and portable player, costing RM7,000 which he bear himself.

Mr. Pathmanathan designed the series of aerobic exercises himself and according to theStar Sunday Metro, 15 July 2007, was reported to have said that people who had frozen shoulders, joint and lower back problems have found relief through his series of aerobic exercises.

Mr. K. Pathmanathan also conducts fitball exercises in Sri Setia, Sungai Way every Wednesday. I have seen a small group of people exercising early morning while still dark, with a large, bouncy ball which I guess must be that fitball exercises, at the same basketball court before the star of the aerobic exercises. According to Mr. K. Pathmanathan, these fitball exercises strengthen the muscles and improve the blood circulation in the lower back by 30%.

Below is a photo of one of the aerobic exercise session:

aerobic exercise session in SS3 Petaling Jaya

And below is a photo of the basketball court where the aerobic exercise sessions are conducted every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning:

covered basketball court, SS3, Petaling Jaya

If you are interested in joining the aerobic exercise sessions, below is a guide to the SS3 Petaling Jaya community hall. The covered basketball court is right beside the community hall:

map to community hall, SS3, Petaling Jaya



More about Mr. K. Pathmanathan

Mr. Pathmanathan has written more than 50 health care articles in a Malay newspaper, has also been featured in health lectures on radio, has been televised with 10 others doing aerobic exercises every Sunday morning on a national television channel. He has also swam from Butterworth to the Penang Island twice, both under 4 hours.

Mr. K. Pathmanathan also keep himself healthy with good nutrition, following a very strict diet of 55% complex carbohydrates such as rice, cereals and bread and the rest are mainly vegetables. He seldom eats meat as he is of the opinion that the body only absorbs some of the nutrients from meat and meat overworks the kidney.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Free mouth screening for mouth cancer November 15 - 17

Free mouth screening for mouth cancer by the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya

Place: Faculty of Dentistry,
University of Malaya
Date: November 15 - 17
Time: (closed at 12pm. Open at 2pm. Forgot to ask for opening time but I suspect you can start registering for it at 8am)

Some directions: Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya is located within University Hospital (I think they call it UMMC now, which is short for University Malaya Medical Center, next to the Maternity Ward. Entrance is from Jalan University. As you enter, proceed to the right. The Faculty of Dentistry is right at the end, next to the Federal Highway. Turn right towards the multi-storey car park. Before you reach the multi-storey car park, there will be the main entrance sandwiched between two part of the large building. It is like a tunnel. There will be a flight of steps leading up to the registration counters. Go there and tell them you want to go for the free mouth screening. Best of luck.