Jul 9, 2010
Eye Clinic Blog retiring
Jun 12, 2010
Primary eye care course 2010 part 1
Report for the Primary eye care course 2010
The primary eye care course had been completed succesfully from the 24th to 26th of May 2010. The objectives of this course is to assist and help primary eye carer in their daily practice and referral .
Among the objectives:
1. Continuous Medical Educations
2. Improve the knowledge in primary eye care among the primary care personels
3. Training of the use of slitlamp and diagnosis of cataract to facilitate the running of the cataract campaign
4. Intoduction of the registry like Diabetic eye registry, Blind registry
5. Prevention of blindness
There were 52 participants which include 8 doctors and 44 paramediks coming from all the peripheral clinics in the northern zone of Sarawak includes Lawas, Limbang, Miri, Marudi and even Bintulu. It was officially opened by Dr Jamil Omar whom was the acting hospital director during that moment. He is also the Medical Advisory Committee chairman of Hospital Miri since 2009.
From the feedback forms, we receive good feedback and most think it was an outstanding course but there are some comments on improvements these were being looked into seriously especially the lacking of lecture notes and request for more efficient practical sessions.
Appreciations to all the staffs which worked hard to make this successful. Including the secretariates JT Selehah and JM Katijah, SMA Musa, JT Lai and not to forget all the rest of the staffs who were covering us during the course. Bravo, my team, the eye team of Miri Hospital !!
Apr 20, 2010
Special Olympics Healthy Athletes Program
SPECIAL OLYMPIC HEALTHY ATHLETE PROGRAM
Blindness awareness campaign
Blindness
awareness
campaign
In conjunction with the JCLA curtin university student Mr Ogi et al, Miri eye department had participated in organizing the talk series among the school teenager (Form 2 secondary students in selected school in Miri) meant to increase the awareness of blindness among the youngster.
The objectives of the talk is to make aware among the youngster the reality of blindness in the society, nurture their mind to prevent blindness and also change their perceptions to persons with poor vision or blindness.
In the exercise, the students would required to be blindfolded and walk a distance of path full with obstacles leaded by another student. After the experience, they would gather around listening to a lecture by the ophthalmologist.
We kick-started begining with students from SMK permaisuri Miri on the 12 April 2010 5-6pm
Mar 21, 2010
Instilling eye drop or ointment yourself:
1. Wash your hands
2. Gently shake the eydrop bottle and open the cap.
3. Face up and look directly to the ceiling.
4. Use index finger of the left hand to pull the lower lid down exposing lower fornix of the eye.
5. Hold the eye drop in the right hand and rest the palm of the right hand on to the index finger of the left (this maneuver would help as a guard to prevent touching the eye.)
6. Bring the tip of the eye drop to about 1cm from eye and you should be now directly looking into the mouth of the bottle
7. Now, keep the position still, roll up the eye and squeeze the bottle until one drop reaches the eye and a cooling sensation felt in the eye.
8. Closed the eye for 1 minute
Instilling eye drop for a patient:
1. Wash your hands
2. Gently shake the eydrop bottle and open the cap.
3. Patient need to face up and look directly to the ceiling.
4. Use index finger of your left hand to pull the lower lid down to expose the lower fornix of the eye.
5. Hold the eye drop in the right hand and rest the palm of the right hand on to the index finger of the left (this maneuver would help as a guard to prevent touching the eye.)
6. Squeeze the bottle until one drop reaches the eye and a cooling sensation felt in the eye.
7. Closed the eye for 1 minute
Tips:
- Aim at the lower fornix and not the corneal
- If the eye drop is in, you should feel sense of coldness into the eye and the drops would have pooled the sac and the vision will be blurred for a moment but it would clears up immediately with blinking.
- Closing the eyes for a minute helps to prevent the loss of the medicine into the nose due to pumping mechanism resulting from blinking.
- Use the little finger of either finger to hold the cap to prevent contamination of the cap. (refers to the animations)
- For elderly patient or patients with stiff neck, lying down would help.
Pulling the lower lid down
Common mistake during eye drop instillation.
1. Touch the corneal before squeezing the eye
2. Touch the sac before squeezing the eye
3. Touch the lashes
4. Missed drop
5. Instill multiple drop (If instill effectively, a drop is adequate otherwise you would run out of the medication very soon.
Pre operative assessment pamphlet
Mar 2, 2010
Forms to claim for intraocular lens for civil servants
For civil servants, pensioner or first degree relatives of the civil servants. The receipt for the intraocular lens can be claimed using these forms from the respective department if he/she is still working and from the JPA if already retired. These forms and instruction can be easily downloaded from the JPA website: http://www.jpa.gov.my/borang/
Feb 6, 2010
Arabian feast by Dr Hisham k
Our expatriate specialist Dr Hisham had initiated a arabian night for all the eye clinic staffs to celebrate the new year of 2010. All the roasted mutton, onion soup, rice, special dish of eggplant were all cooked by himself and is very special and delicious. Staffs were also entertained by Dr Hisham with his arabian organ music. These are among the dishes served during that day and all had a very "good filling" night (10th Jan 2010)
Feb 3, 2010
Bario eye screening
2 Optometrists from Miri eye clinic participated in this 3 days 2 night adventure. about 400 folks screened. The screening was organized by Rotary club Kuching.
Program: Rotary brings vision and health to the people of Bario
Organizer: Rotary Club, Kuching with co-operation of KK Bario
- MAS Wings
- Zeiss
- Association of Malaysian Optometrists
Project Advisor: Mr Andre Suharto
Project Director: Mr Chai Koo Jee
Other team members:
- 2 ophthalmologists
- 5 optometrists
- 1 surgeon from Miri GH
- 2 doctors from Rotary Club
- 7 other Rotarians
- Students: 297
- Registered patients with KK Bario: 76
- Walk-ins: 37
- Total: 410