A Report from the Medical Unit in Kaizen

During the first language camp of this semester, that was held in Academy Kaizen, Gunung Pulai, Naterah, Kenneth and I were incharged of the medical unit. Before we went off to the camp, we had been notified that medical kits will be provided by HEP, therefore no preparation was made for this unit. Just before we departed, Kenneth gave me his small but complete medical kit, that he was bringing to the camp just in case people from HEP forget to bring it. It seemed that Kenneth instinct was absolutely right. There were no medical kits at all from the HEP. It was very fortunate that Kenneth had made early preparation. However, we had to share one medical kit for male and female participants all time during the whole camp.

In overall, we had four cases of non-emergency medical situation throughout the whole duration of the camp. During the first day, Friday, July 11th, there was no case of participants or facilitators got sick. However, on the second day, Saturday, July 12th one female participant vomited after eating nasi lemak after the morning exercise. Naterah and I took care of her and we gave her suitable medication with "minyak angin cap kapak" to help her losing the feeling of vomiting. We asked her to rest in the room because she was also having headache. After sleeping and resting for a while she was okay and she joined the program again after lunch. Later that night, one of the female facilitators also had stomachache and she stayed in the room with one other facilitator. After resting for a while, she was okay and she joined the program again at 9 pm.

Early in the morning of the last day, Sunday, July 13th, one male participants accidently cut himself when he bumped onto the glass window. He had a small injury across his nose but he was okay. Kenneth helped him to clean up the bleeding and he applied some oinment on the injury. Later, in the morning, one of the male facilitators also got sick but after resting for a while he was okay again.

Although we did not have any emergency cases during the camp, we should be more prepared next time. The only problem was that we were supposed to have enough medical supplies or at least two medical kits, one for girls and one for boys. One more thing is that, facilitators should also know how to handle any common medical situations or at least they have some knowledge on how to handle them. Other than that, everything was okay. For our next camps, hopefully we can confirm with the HEP first about first aid kits, just to make sure, they will bring them. That's all, thanks.