18/08/2012
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Clinicals on Saturdays is
always a real pain for me. There’s NO way to escape on that , even in com med appointment.I
wanted to cut the lec on that saturday.But I made
my mind to attend it, as the schedule topic was infection notification system about which I knew hardly. Anyway I expected it to be a very short lecture……
In the com med appointment
,we always experience a new aspect of
medicine. The places where we have lectures also different.So for the first time in my life, I was in the infection controlling unit. A pretty nursing officer came to lecture us on “Disease surveillance system”(a big name
for notification system :) )
During the first 15
minutes,I understood the importance of notification system. This, time- consuming process is really important
for the prevention of infectious diseases like dengue, Tb etc. The basis of
this system is MOH office to know about
the patients with infectious diseases in
their area and take necessary actions to prevent them from being spread. All the people in this society
are legally bound to inform MOH office about
infectious diseases. Most commonly they get informations from hospitals by H544
form and special campaigns. Ultimately, MOH office has to inform about confirmed
infectious diseases to the reigional epidemiology unit and the Epidemiology
unit. (@ the moment e-mail,telephones are use to inform immediately , but it’s
mandatory to inform them via the formal
method as well.If it’s about cholera, plague, yellow fever, epidemiology
unit has to inform WHO.
At the end of the
session, what really went in to my mind was
the importance of filling the H544 form.
It shouid be filled in
clear handwriting, before discharging
the patient. And the most important thing
is to get the address from the patient itself
& not from the guardian ,unless the patient is very small or unable to
speak, obviously . Because this entire system depends on the patient’s address.
IT wasn’t a boring
lecture, also not a short one as I predicted. But an interesting and a useful one.
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