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Field Trip Report To UTHM Health Centre

The field trip report summarizes a visit by attendees to the UTHM Health Centre on August 24, 2019. The purpose was to observe existing facilities and discuss possible improvements. The health centre was established in 2002 and now has medical doctors, dentists, nurses, and other staff. It provides healthcare to students and staff, treating approximately 200 medical and 100 dental patients daily. While facilities like the new hemodialysis unit meet demands, long waiting times of up to 20 minutes for treatment and 15 minutes for prescriptions were identified as a significant problem. Adding more medical staff was suggested to improve the issue of waiting times.

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Field Trip Report To UTHM Health Centre

The field trip report summarizes a visit by attendees to the UTHM Health Centre on August 24, 2019. The purpose was to observe existing facilities and discuss possible improvements. The health centre was established in 2002 and now has medical doctors, dentists, nurses, and other staff. It provides healthcare to students and staff, treating approximately 200 medical and 100 dental patients daily. While facilities like the new hemodialysis unit meet demands, long waiting times of up to 20 minutes for treatment and 15 minutes for prescriptions were identified as a significant problem. Adding more medical staff was suggested to improve the issue of waiting times.

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Field Trip Report to UTHM Health Centre

Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia


24 August 2019

Attendees:
Azilah Ahmad
Haliza Ibrahim
Intan Farha Yusoff
Zetty Zuraidah Ali
Zainal Abidin Ismail

Introduction

The purpose of this field trip was to look at existing conditions and facilities available
at UTHM Healthcare Centre. Apart from that the trip was also intended to discuss
possible improvements that can be suggested to the management of the centre.

The health centre was initially known as Students' Health Centre started its operation
in May 2002. At its initial stage there were only two registered nurses and a doctor
available. However, to date the centre has the luxury of having two medical doctors,
two dentists, two medical assistants, nine registered nurses, two dental surgery
assistant, a radiographer, a pharmacist and a physiotherapist.

The centre has the following objectives:


1. to provide the centre with state of the art medical facilities.
2. to diagnose and treat patients professionally and efficiently.
3. to prevent and control infectious and contagious diseases.
4. to raise awareness in term of health knowledge among staff and students and the
locals.

Field Observation

The centre is the sole centre that provides healthcare to students; alternatively staff
have the choices to seek medical help form panel clinics chosen by the university.
However, according to the observation from mid day till evening there were many
staff that sought medical assistance from the center as it was said that the centre
provides much better facilities and medicine as compared to the panel clinics.

The centre is capable of catering approximately 200 medical patients and 100 dental
patients on day to day basis. In addition to out-patients service the centre also
provides hemodialysis unit which can cater up to eight patients at one time. This unit
was newly established as to meet the demand of the increasing number of kidney
patients among staff and staff’s family members.
It was found out that waiting time was one of a significant problem at that centre.
Most patients usually had to wait up to 20 minutes before getting treatments. Other
than that it was also observed that patients had to wait approximately another 15
minutes to get their prescriptions.

Conclusion

It is obvious that healthcare plays a major role in ensuring students academic


success. Therefore it is important for the centre to render its best service to cater the
needs of its patients. In regards of waiting time the centre should consider of adding
more medical staff to its workforce.

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