Health Infrastructure Seminar

Date : 2/12/2008

Presented by:

1) Darren Liaw Jian Wen

2) Dhanyakumari A/P Pramakumar

3) Tey Kai Jun

4) Valli A/P Ragunathan

Lecturer : Dr. Sawri

Seminar outline

The topic Health Infrastructure mainly focuses on entire management of Ministry of Health in Malaysia. It enabled us to understand the backbone of Health Ministry. We explained the health infrastructure in different level in which include federal level, state level and also district level. The chart organization of health infrastructure in federal level (whole Malaysia), state level (Kedah state) and district level were explained during the presentation. We focused on health infrastructure in Kedah state since we are posted at Kedah state. The state ministry divided into management, medicine, pharmaceutical, dental, public health and nursing departments. Through this presentation, it enabled us to understand the responsibilities of each department and the staffs that responsible for the departments. In addition, the units under public health also were introduced and this would help us to understand the system of public health before our district posting. However, there are informations that we need to get during our district posting to have a comprehensive understanding of the health infrastructure especially the public health department. At the end, we would like to thank our lecturer Dr Sawri and we appreciate faithfully for his guidance.

Health Infrastructure

Learning Objectives

Ø Public health for each unit : we must know

1) infrastructure

2) activities

3) staffs that responsible

4) budget/allocation

· Family Health Unit

- For postnatal visit : how they make the visit?

- What immunization are given for child?

- How to advice pregnant women with illness (e.g. anemia, diabetes mellitus)? What food should she take and avoid?

· Food Quality Control Unit

- Forms (borang) used in this unit

- How long does it take to get the result of food quality testing?

- What does the unit do when they visit/check the food stall?

- Food Act : include smoking

§ What are the laws about smoking?

§ How much fine we need to pay if smoke in public?

§ If we do not pay the fine, then what is the punishment?

· Water Quality Control Unit

- How to take the sample properly?

- How does it processed?

- How long does it take to get the result of food quality testing?

· Communicable Disease Control Unit

- How was it controlled? What strategies are used?

- Focus on cholera, dengue, food poisoning, tuberculosis

· Non Communicable Disease Control Unit

- What does the government plan for controlling it? ( DM, hypertension…)

· Occupation and Environmental Health Section (KPAS)

- Who are benefit from this unit?

- What problems do the workers face in occupational setting? How to overcome it?

- What safe precautions should be taken in working setting?

· Health promotion unit

- What activities or programs for health promotion are carried out or planned?

· HIV/AIDS Programme and PROSTAR

- What strategies are used?

- How it was monitored?

- Where they get the money from?

- How far it is successful?

· Health laws

- What are the health laws for each state?

§ For latest(9^th) Malaysia plan, how much it was allocated for health sector development?

v Other given learning objectives have been presented by other groups : the topic of food quality control, water supply and sanitation, maternal and child health.