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4.9.09

Swine Flu (H1N1) in view



Dimaklumkan pada hari ini sejumlah 68 pesakit baru dengan gejala influenza-like illness (ILI) telah dimasukkan ke hospital untuk rawatan dan pada masa yang sama sejumlah 103 kes telah didiscaj. Ini menjadikan baki seramai 1,176 pesakit ILI sedang dirawat di 108 buah hospital termasuk 12 hospital swasta di seluruh negara. Daripada jumlah pesakit yang dirawat, hanya 236 pesakit (20.1%) yang telah disahkan positif H1N1.

Daripada 236 kes yang disahkan H1N1, 49 kes berada di ICU di mana 10 kes merupakan kemasukan baru, sementara 2 lagi kes telah keluar dari ICU. Daripada 49 kes yang sedang dirawat di ICU, 33 (67.3%) mempunyai faktor risiko. Pecahan kes mengikut faktor risiko adalah seperti berikut: penyakit respiratori (asma, COPD) (6); penyakit kronik seperti penyakit jantung (1), Diabetes Mellitus (4), penyakit buah pinggang (2), penyakit immunosuppressive (1); hamil (1); obesiti (9) dan kanak-kanak/bayi (9).

Untuk makluman, tiada kematian baru yang disahkan akibat jangkitan influenza A(H1N1) didaftarkan pada hari ini.

Berdasarkan panggilan hotline, 5 soalan yang paling kerap diterima daripada orang ramai adalah berkaitan vaksin, situasi semasa Influenza A(H1N1), simptom/gejala dan penyebaran serta langkah-langkah pencegahan.

Sehingga kini masih belum ada vaksin di pasaran untuk melindungi seseorang daripada Influenza A(H1N1). Vaksin ini masih di peringkat ujian klinikal.Orang ramai masih kurang jelas dengan simptom/gejala influenza A(H1N1). Gejala Influenza A(H1N1) adalah demam, batuk, sakit kepala, sakit sendi dan badan, selesema dan sakit tekak serta susah bernafas.

Orang ramai perlu sentiasa mengambil langkah-langkah pencegahan seperti berikut:

  • Menutup mulut ketika bersin dan batuk.
  • Menjaga kebersihan diri seperti mencuci tangan dengan kerap setiap kali selepas batuk dan bersin.
  • Menjauhkan diri daripada individu yang mempunyai gejala ILI.
  • Mengelakkan diri daripada berada di kawasan yang sesak dengan orang ramai.
  • Ibu bapa dinasihatkan agar tidak membawa anak-anak kecil ke tempat yang sesak
Sekiranya seseorang berasa tidak sihat atau mengalami gejala selesema (influenza-like-illness), anda dinasihatkan untuk berada di rumah dan tidak pergi ke tempat kerja, sekolah atau mana-mana tempat awam. Individu yang tergolong dalam kumpulan yang berisiko tinggi dan mengalami gejala influenza A(H1N1) perlu segera mendapatkan rawatan awal.

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Yuni is currently sleeping in the cradle. I had to take 1/2 day EL. Abg who planned to stay home to look after Yuni had to cancel the plan since he needed to go to hospital, attending to Opah.

As much as Abg wants to bring Yuni to see Opah, that is as much as how I wanted to bring Yuni too. But, Abg said they had prohibited children below 12 years old from entering any government hospital. Is that true? Well, from Abg's story yesterday during his visit to Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital, the awareness of H1N1 is quite low. Not to condemn or anything, just that I was surprised. Why? Because most government hospital treat H1N1 cases, so, their staffs bears high risk of getting infected. Therefore, they should implement the mask wearing etc...

Just for a comparison, I am used to SDMC (formerly known as SJMC) and eversince H1N1 spread, they have been thightening controls, such as checking for high fever ptients or visitors going into the hospitals, masks were provided to ALL the staff and doctors and General Doctors implement hand sanitizers...etc...

When Yuni had a flu, I quickly went to SDMC. Since it was at 7pm, no more Paeds on duty...They had this General Doctor on duty. This one doctor (male) who attended to Uyuni was very "clean" concious! We were talking about Yuni's symptoms, but he was too concentrated on cleaning his hands *Aiyah!*

New doctor, I guess. He was a bit awkward when handling Yuni...hehehe
(Well, in the end, he just gave us a nose drop-which was actually an eye drop!)... I'm not complaining anymore because it helped Yuni...Alhamdulillah, sekarang dah baik


Health concious is currently important, regardless you're single, married or even have kids cause virus don't really select its target.

Nota kaki: Do they sell baby masks? To protect Yuni when she had to go out (12hb & 13hb ni...especially)..heheh *Bukak pose Seoul Garden tuh....lapar2...hhahaa*

1 comment:

tUtyRAhiZa said...

mengambil peluang update blog ye lepas amik 1/2day..

btw, arap opah ko makin sihat..insya Allah..