On the Move

*I tag this post under the heading 'Travel' though we are fulfilling our District posting and are obliged to stay over there for three and a half weeks. Because we are indeed 'travelling' to and fro. ;)

This is not a planned vacation. We have no choice. Jerteh, Besut is our destination.
Accomodation: A semi-detached, semi-concrete+wooden house. Adequate eletrical supply but scarce water source. We heard people screaming "No Water!" in the middle of their baths. -_-!
Duration: Three and a half weeks.
Mission: Hmm, I've no concrete idea in the beginning. To fulfill our logbooks? (5 of them in all) To carry out some surveys and playing the SPSS? Guess have to tell later on.
Places of interest: Hospital Besut, District Health Office, Health clinics. And Restaurants of course.
Team Members: There are 14 of us. Car-pooling Members: CW, Michelle, ChaiChin and I.
Rewards: ??

First week

Needless to say, we were thrown a bombshell once we stepped into the house. Dusty and stuffy. Dark and gloomy. Lines of ants were welcoming us. What a heck of unpleasant smell!
We settled down at last... This was the time of showing our survival skills. We headed to the town and hunt for foodss! How elated we were when we saw a Chinese restaurant in the middle of the town..hehem:)
Hospital Besut is kind of small compared to HUSM. All the wards are single storey buildings. I've a deja vu feeling...kind of going back to my primary school as the buildings are so alike those classrooms we had. And, oh, so few of people inside (and outside as well) the wards! Our wards are congested always, with overloaded patients, family, specialists, MOs, HOs, staff nurses, medical students, nursing students, physiotherapists, dieticians...the list goes on.
My first oncall in A&E was great fun though no high end heart racing Red flag cases. Because I got to manage a case from the beginning till the end. History taking, PE, blood taking, IV line, chest x ray, admission...Eventhough it was just a complaint of "cough for 2 weeks"...And CW discharged a 5 years old girl after we confirmed she had no corneal abrasion with the fluorescent strip. (Hope we were right, hehe). Oh, we prescribed drugs too...alright, I'm getting too excited>>

Natalie: Stay tuned for second week's story;)