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NST - 12 July 2010



(From left) Tengku Puteri Puan Sri Norzehan, Muhamad Umar Swift, Datuk Dr Lee Hoo Teong, Noor Deeni Kamarulzaman and Datuk Dr Low Bin Tick viewing the Automated External Defibrillator set. — Picture by Mohd Fadli Hamzah


KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Assurance Alliance Bhd (MAA) provided financial aid to St John Ambulance Malaysia (SJAM) to purchase the Automated External Defibrillator (AED), a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) simulator training equipment.
MAA Assurance chief executive officer Muhamad Umar Swift presented a cheque of RM10,475 to SJAM commander-in-chief Datuk Dr Low Bin Tick and its chief training officer Datuk Dr Lee Hoo Teong at the SJAM headquarters yesterday.

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Intelligent Defensive Driving Course - Ambulance
Theory Class

Date: 24 July 2010
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: SJAM Penang HQ Seminar Room

Interested, please register with Mr. Tan at tktan@sjampenang.org.my
Closing date: 22 July 2010, 5.00pm

Light Tea will be served

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TheStar Metro NORTH 10-Jul-2010


VIPS: Abdul Rahman and his consort arriving for the Penang St John Ambulance Malaysia annual marching inspection at Padang Polo. With them is Dr Yee (right)


FIRST aid training should be made compulsory for the public so that lives can be saved, said St John Ambulance Malaysia (SJAM) commander-in-chief Datuk Dr Low Bin Tick.

He said first aid knowledge was essential as many lives were lost due to the poor pre-hospital aid.

“During an emergency, the best people to help an individual are family members, friends or passers-by.

“Therefore, it is important for everyone to be equipped with first aid knowledge so that they can always help by providing pre-hospital assistance before sending the casualty to the hospital,” Dr Low said during the Penang SJAM annual parade at Padang Polo recently.

A total of 450 SJAM members from various secondary schools in Penang took part in the parade which was attended by Yang di-Pertua Negri Tun Abdul Rahman Abbas and his consort Toh Puan Majimor Shariff.

Earlier, SJAM state commander Datuk Dr Yee Thiam Sun said the organisation’s Emergency Ambulance Service (EMAS) had received 6,529 emergency calls in Penang since it began operation in 2007 until May this year.

“We have attended to 3,195 medical cases and 2,307 road accident cases,” he said in his speech.

On the response time, Dr Yee said Penang SJAM managed to achieve the London Ambulance Service Standard’s response time of within 19 minutes compared to the Health Ministry’s target of 30 minutes.

“We responded within 19 minutes for 94% of the 2,144 calls received in 2009,” he said.

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TheStar July 8, 2010

INSTEAD of seeing more haemodialysis machines, Social Security Organisation (Socso) chairman Datuk Abu Huraira Abu Yazid prefers a drop in the number of patients who suffer from kidney problems.

He was speaking at the presentation of two new haemodialysis machines costing RM40,000 each from Socso to the Penang Haemodialysis Community Association at Wisma St John Ambulance of Penang on Friday.

In addition to the two new haemodialysis machines, the association has another six machines.

“Hopefully, with the addition of these two machines, the association will be able to improve its services to all Socso-insured patients,” the chairman said.

A total of 281 dialysis treatment centres across the country have been appointed by Socso to be its panel dialysis centres.

In Penang, 30 haemodialysis centres handle Socso-insured patients.

Also present during the presentation were Penang Socso director Noorhanita Mohamad, senior general manager of operations Dr Mohd Azman Aziz Mohammed, president of Penang Rotary Club Gerard Robless, Penang St John Ambulance state superintendent Teh Kwan Liek, manager of community haemodialysis Penang Dr K. Danesh.

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SJAM Penang would like to express our sincere appreciation to all of you, who directly or indirectly, in making this year flag day a success. Thanks you very much!