20th December 2012
The sixteenth day of my social service. The unforgettable day of my social service at Pusat Jagaan Jed. As usually I went to the home care around 9.00 am. The patients were cleaning the anchovies. Mr. Raman and Mr. Sunther told me something that was really shocking. I thought they were joking with me so I asked them back is it really true. One of the patient in the home care acted violently around 2.30 am. The patient took a fluorescent tube and whacked another roommate of him on the head while he was sleeping. When asked why he did that, he replied, his roommate disturbed him unnecessarily which is not true. The patient also have tried to commit suicide early that morning. He used his towel to choke himself. He was stopped by Mr. Sethu who saw him trying to suicide. Three of his roommate also told that they have seen him trying to choke himself to death using the towel before. The also added he did mention about dying many times since the past four to five days. I was totally shocked to hear this. He is in his early 70's and very weak. How he could have climbed on the table, took the fluorescent tube and whacked his roomate? Mr. Raman have already told all this to Dr. Bala early in the morning. Dr. Bala informed the patient's family about what have happened and decided to send him to Hospital Bahagia Ulu Kinta, formerly known as Hospital Tanjung Rambutan. After lunch we took him to HBUK. HBUK is the first and biggest psychiatric hospital in Malaysia. Located about 13KM from our home care. It was the first time i went to HBUK. Once reached HBUK, we straight away brought him to the male admission ward. The person at the admission counter told us he cannot admit the patient without a letter from the psychiatric specialist. He asked us to go to the out patient center in HBUK to get our patient checked by doctor. Previously, a psychiatric patient can be admitted in the ward if he willingly wanted to be admitted. But now the rules has been changed. We took the patient to out patient center. After registered his name, we waited for the doctor to attend him in a room. The doctor came and started to ask questions to him regarding the incident that happened early the night. The doctor continued to ask questions to him. He responded slowly to all his questions. He told he is hallucinating things like people dying and he could listen sounds like police siren and so on. He said he is scared of living, he have no appetite to eat, he have stomach pain and wanted to die. When asked about his family, he told that he is unmarried, he had a sister and she passed away many years back. He also added that he love sex and think a lot about it. After talked with him and confirmed that he did really tried to commit suicide, the doctor gave us the supporting documents and letter to admit him in the ward. Then we took him to the admission ward again. He was attended by another specialist doctor. The doctor again asked the same questions to him to confirm all that he told before is right. And finally he was admitted in the ward.
The sixteenth day of my social service. The unforgettable day of my social service at Pusat Jagaan Jed. As usually I went to the home care around 9.00 am. The patients were cleaning the anchovies. Mr. Raman and Mr. Sunther told me something that was really shocking. I thought they were joking with me so I asked them back is it really true. One of the patient in the home care acted violently around 2.30 am. The patient took a fluorescent tube and whacked another roommate of him on the head while he was sleeping. When asked why he did that, he replied, his roommate disturbed him unnecessarily which is not true. The patient also have tried to commit suicide early that morning. He used his towel to choke himself. He was stopped by Mr. Sethu who saw him trying to suicide. Three of his roommate also told that they have seen him trying to choke himself to death using the towel before. The also added he did mention about dying many times since the past four to five days. I was totally shocked to hear this. He is in his early 70's and very weak. How he could have climbed on the table, took the fluorescent tube and whacked his roomate? Mr. Raman have already told all this to Dr. Bala early in the morning. Dr. Bala informed the patient's family about what have happened and decided to send him to Hospital Bahagia Ulu Kinta, formerly known as Hospital Tanjung Rambutan. After lunch we took him to HBUK. HBUK is the first and biggest psychiatric hospital in Malaysia. Located about 13KM from our home care. It was the first time i went to HBUK. Once reached HBUK, we straight away brought him to the male admission ward. The person at the admission counter told us he cannot admit the patient without a letter from the psychiatric specialist. He asked us to go to the out patient center in HBUK to get our patient checked by doctor. Previously, a psychiatric patient can be admitted in the ward if he willingly wanted to be admitted. But now the rules has been changed. We took the patient to out patient center. After registered his name, we waited for the doctor to attend him in a room. The doctor came and started to ask questions to him regarding the incident that happened early the night. The doctor continued to ask questions to him. He responded slowly to all his questions. He told he is hallucinating things like people dying and he could listen sounds like police siren and so on. He said he is scared of living, he have no appetite to eat, he have stomach pain and wanted to die. When asked about his family, he told that he is unmarried, he had a sister and she passed away many years back. He also added that he love sex and think a lot about it. After talked with him and confirmed that he did really tried to commit suicide, the doctor gave us the supporting documents and letter to admit him in the ward. Then we took him to the admission ward again. He was attended by another specialist doctor. The doctor again asked the same questions to him to confirm all that he told before is right. And finally he was admitted in the ward.
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