Enjoy this creative depiction of the first day of life as a medical House Officer (HO) in a training hospital in Malaysia.

Feel free to share your experience when you started your journey as a HO

We regret the inconvenience experienced by the patient but do allow us to elaborate on this issue.

Patients are supplied medications on a monthly basis for several reasons.

Firstly, it is to enable the pharmacist to monitor these patients in terms of compliance and/or occurrence of adverse reactions.

Secondly it is to ensure the quality of medicines used as not all patients keep their medicines in accordance with proper storage conditions and this will compromise the efficacy of these medications and safety of the patient.

Lastly, periodic supply of medications also helps to avoid wastage as patients do not always inform the pharmacy if they still have stock at home when they get their new prescriptions filled.

In addition to this, all medicines supplied from public health facilities are fully subsidised by the Government.

In order not to tie up Government funding with excessive stocks and also to avoid the issue of wastage, the norm for stock holding in Government hospitals and clinics is two months.

Hence, the policy to supply medicines on a monthly basis is not because the hospitals have insufficient stocks but it is an effort to practise good store management, maintaining the delicate balance between maximum stock (to avoid overstocking) and minimum stock (to avoid under-stocking) which is vital in these prudent times.

Facilities that frequently experience the issue of under-stocking will be looked into and advised to take effective corrective action to rectify the matter.

However, the Pharmaceutical Services Division has introduced several mechanisms to ease the medication collection process for patients on long-term therapy.

Patients can request to collect their repeat medications from facilities which are nearer their homes using the Sistem Pendispensan Ubat-Ubatan Bersepadu (SPUB) services offered at all government hospital and health clinic pharmacies.

Alternatively, patients can also opt to have their repeat medications posted to their homes on a regular basis.

This service is already being offered at major hospitals in all states and will be expanded to include other healthcare facilities based on the coverage offered by the postal service.

With this, we hope to overcome the woes of patients and care-givers who find it inconvenient to come to the Government hospitals and health clinics to collect their medications.

We would like to suggest that the patient concerned discuss with the respective pharmacist on the various medication collection options available through which he/she can collect his/her repeat medications.

DATUK EISAH A. RAHMAN,
Senior Director of Pharmaceutical Services,
Health Ministry.

First published by TheStar Online on 21st July 2011:

Forced to make extra trips for medicine

I AM a diabetic patient and I write this letter because of the numerous times I have been asked to return to collect my medicine. This has been going on for about a year.

We diabetic patients are reviewed every three months and are given a three-month supply of medication. But each time we collect our medicine we are only given one month’s supply.

Therefore, we have to come back two more times to collect the medicine. This is very tedious and time wasting especially for those who stay far away from the hospital and have to take a bus or taxi.

Money is being drained out o our pockets unnecessarily during these bad economic times.

It is indeed terrible for those who are old and feeble, especially the pensioners.

Not only is the hospital short of medicine for diabetes but it also has no supply of simple tablets such as calcium.

DM PATIENT,
Port Dickson.

First published by TheStar Online on 16th July 2011:

Photo credit: QXZ

Here is the message sent by Hisham verbatim:

Dear Sir I am from Jordan . I am looking for my nephew in VOLGOGRAD and I will be grateful to anybody who can help me to establish contact with him . His name is ” Samir mohammad alhodalli ” . I have the old telephone number for his russian mother Elena in VOLGOGRAD . It is ( 8422-353698 ). Elina full name is Elena Paresovna Tronoviscya . He is 21 years old now His mother “Elina” was living with her mother Laura in Volgograd before she get married to my brother and came to Jordan in 1989 with him.; after my brother passed away in 1992 ,she left Jordan with my nephew ” Samir” to Volgograd and since that time we didn’t hear about them. My mobile number ” 00962-799035539 ‘ and my home phone number “00962-6-4889939 ” “Samir” . . I am worried about him and want to help him financially to continue his education. Best Regards Hisham Alhoudalli Amman-Jordan Mobile : +962-799035539

Hisham seems like a sincere man who would like to fulfill his obligations to his brother by looking out for the extended family member (especially the young nephew). Anyone who has the information to help Hisham locate Samir can contact him through the contact number listed above or email him at hisham241 @ yahoo . com

We hope Hisham can be reunited with his sister-in-law and nephew.

To Hisham, if you are able to relocate your relatives, we certainly would like to hear about it too! Best of luck and may god bless your honorable intention.

The most popular WordPress themes are no doubt Newspaper and Magazine styled themes. GabfireThemes is sort of an expert in this area, producing no less than 5 quality and aesthetic-looking newspaper & magazine styled themes. Its themes are not only search engine optimized, they are easily customized and (some) provide built-in advertisement management module. Below are some screen shots of the themes developed by GabfireThemes:

Gabfire Themes was founded in 2008 by Mehmet Özekinci a 29-year old independent web designer and web project consultant based in Estonia.

This is not a sponsored post, but is a contest entry post organized by ThemeGrade.com.

ThemeGrade.com is run by WordPress enthusiasts who aim to provide the Most comprehensive WordPress Theme Grading available on the worldwideweb. Besides theme grading, you can also visit ThemeGrade.com for WordPress related tutorials and guides, internet marketing, social media and general WordPress development news.

60m (F)

1. RSMU

2. VSMU

3. MMA

800m (M)

1. RSMU

2. KSMU

3. MAI

4 x 400m (M)

1. VSMU

2. MMA

3. KSMU

4 x 200m (F)

1. VSMU

2. MMA

3. KSMU

Basketball (M)

1. VSMU

2. KSMU

3. MMA

Basketball (F)

1. VSMU

2. RSMU

3. NNSMA

Handball (M)

1. RSMU

2. MMA

3. NNSMA

Handball (F)

1. VSMU

2. RSMU

3. NNSMA

Futsal (M)

1. VSMU

2. NNSMA

3. MAI

Futsal (F)

1. KSMU

2. RSMU

3. NNSMA

Tug of War

1. KSMU

2. VSMU

3. NNSMA

Netball 24th April 2009

1. KSMU

2. MMA

3. VSMU

4. NNSMA

Sepak Takraw 24th – 25th April 2009

1. KSMU

2. KSMU

3. MMA

Volleyball (M) 24th – 25th April 2009

1. NNSMA

2. KSMU

3. MMA

Volleyball (F) 24th – 25th April 2009

1. VSMU

2. MMA

3. RSMU

4. NNSMA

Honey lemon for the parched throat … besok jerit lagi!

Ingredients:
• 2 Cups water
• 1 tsp Tea powder
• 1/2 Cup lemon juice
• Sugar to taste

How to make Lemon Tea:
•    Put water on heat
•    Add tea powder and lemon juice.
•    Boil it.
•    Add sugar to taste.
•    Lemon tea is ready.