World Kidney Day - Free Health Screening

Life been a bit hectic with the up and coming World Kidney Day that my club is co-organizing this 12th March 2009. Basically we are doing a free health examination by the NKF (National Kidney Foundation) to the general public.

The health examination consists of screening on blood pressure, urine, body mas index, waist circumference, blood glucose, blood cholesterol and counseling.

This will be one of the biggest event that my club has co-organised as we will be having over 100 medical staff and an expected 500-700 walk-in. We have also manage to get the DTMM Raja Permaisuri Perak to officiate the one day event.

To those not working on a Tuesday, do come over and join us that day.

Date : 10th March 2009 (Tuesday)
Venue : Pusat Konvensyen Sungai Siput, Perak
Time : 8.30am to 3.00pm
Telephone : 1300 88 3110

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Cataract Surgery

I am in the midst of preparing a powerpower point presentation for "The Right To Sight" community project. One of the issues that I would be talking about is the prevalence of cataracts being one of the major contributor towards blindness among poor communities. It only takes a simple 10 minute surgical procedure in order to restore their sight.

Many people have asked me about cataract surgery so I have included a clip in my presentation.

I am also including it here as I am sure many people are curious what cataract surgery looks like and truly how simple the whole procedure is.

Warning: If you squirm looking at a bit of blood and faint at the sight of surgical procedures, do not proceed any further. You have been warned.

Rotary Health Camp 2008

I have been involved with Rotary for the past 5 years. You can say that its my pet project since I came back to Malaysia as I was involved with its creation and the running of the club in my town. I've always been into community based NGO's even since my university days in UK (I was involved with the RNIB then).

The Rotary Health Camp is one of our major projects that the club has undertaken for the past 3 years. This year's project would be the largest that we have done for a single day health camp. I will go into details regarding the project in another blog entry.

Anyways, today is the eve of the project day and I was on site to inspect the preparation of the hall.

One of our banner that is scattered around town. We made 3 huge banners placed at strategic location around town.

This is where the Health Camp is going to be held. On the right are people from the health department putting up buntings on health related issues.

2 of the many banners around the hall

At 8.30pm a few of us came to the hall and did the table arrangements. Notice there are people playing badminton. That would be our main exhibition area.

This donation box (made by me :P) will be placed all over the hall.

I'll be waking up at 7.00 am tomorrow to prepare for the big day. Hopefully the weather would be good and there would be a big crowd for us to serve.

More updates to come