Friday, February 20, 2009

DAY 4 PADANG TERAP : Hawker Hunt



A somber start on day 4. We were still recovering from yesterday's tiring day. Nevertheless, as every other day surprised us with lots of fun, we were thrilled for more. Mr. Azlan who is PKPP from the CDC branch got us some information on various communicable diseases. Though the whole session was done in the meeting room, the information was fruitful as ever. We discussed on various diseases on Cholera, Typhoid, HFMD, Dysentery, Food poisoning and Tuberculosis. However, there were no specificity seen in here as most questions asked were said to be standardised. Also, the incidence and prevalence here was not alarming despite recording higher cases as mentioned by Mr. Azlan. The morning session ended at noon, and as usual we went out eagerly for the one thing that unites us in common... FOOD.

Later in the day, as promised we were taken for food premise’s inspection. Feeling authorised for the very first time, we have to admit, we felt good. But again, we were not physically promising in that job. The hawkers were no threatened by our presence. Anyway, we were introduced as medical students, so what to say…hmmm.

It was not long before our day came to an utter end. After a short post-mortem of our inspection result, we headed back home to continue our extra-curricular activities.

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