Industrial Attachment (First Week)

It has been 5 days for my industrial training in the hospital laboratory department.. to be more accurate, it's so called Jabatan Pathologi at Pantai Hospital Ampang. It's not as big as what i expected, but good enough though. It's just the branch hospital, so the laboratory department is not as big as the HQ at Pantai Hospital Bangsar. But i'm now slowly get used to the environment, culture and the people here. Everything is so NICE, i should say i am quite LUCKY to be here. Will tell more later~ =)

On the first day, i was there pretty early. Sujadhini and I was assigned to the same hospital. She lives in Kajang while i'm from Seri Kembangan, both of us gonna go Ampang from Monday to Saturday =.='' Both of us were late on the third day, because of the terrible traffic jam during rainy day. 6km per hour, u can imagine how jam it was!! But the traffic getting smoother after passing some of the busy roads. i was late for 45 minutes.

The lab manager, Ms Shanaliza and all the staff there are all so friendly. They like joking while doing their work and everyone gets along with one another so well. This enlivens the atmosphere of working, it's a good culture practice. I thought English is the main communication language in a working place. Well, the people here are usually speaking Malay. The language that i have spoken the least in my life, i think... The lab is the miniature version of Malaysian society - Satu Malaysia, with Malay as the majority, Chinese and Indian working together. This is the reason why i gonna speak the bahasa kebangsaan in the lab. But there's exception, the Chinese people in the lab speak Cantonese to one another.

Besides all the lab people, there are quite a number of dispatch riders who are responsible of collecting samples from clinics at different areas. So, there would be around 100 samples everyday. It's not so bored to be in the lab everyday. I'm currently in the microbiology and serology section. The staff works in this section, Kak Wany, she has taught me a lot of stuff. She let me do the urine FEME test, urine pregnancy test (UPT), drug (amphetamine, morphine, opiates, cannabinoids) test and sometimes the acid-fast bacilli (AFB) stain and she even let me do the Mycoplasmal pneumoniae serology test. I did learn a lot these few days, i even saw sperms under microscope!!! At first, i cant bear with the smelly urine samples once open the bottle cap, but now i'm really get used to them. It's unavoidable that the gloves to get wet with the urine because in some cases, the urine leaks. And the most nauseas thing was the stool sample that we got a few days ago. It was so yuccckkyy!!! it's like plasticine and ice-cream.

Besides, Uncle Chan, who's responsible for the blood bank section. He has taught a me lot too. His job covers blood grouping rhesus factor, rheumatoid arthritis factor, VDRL test for detecting syphilis infection, glucose-6-phsosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PD) test, blood cross match, etc... He taught me how to intepret all results of most of the tests.

So it's lucky that i'm here, i have learnt a lot and experienced how the lab people handle during emergency/critical moment (when patients that having operation needs blood transfusion urgently). But sometimes it's tiring to work from 9am till 5.30pm and working for half day on Saturday. I'm most happy on Saturday because can go home early rest well on Sunday. Now i did realize the importance of having sufficient sleep. hehe.. My life is 'forced' to going back into normal track. Good for me though...haha...a good motive force =)