UM Medical Students Hold Week-long Community Health Project In Sibu

SIBU, Aug 25 (Bernama) -- A group of 88 second year medical students from the University of Malaya (UM) are now in town for a week-long community health project.
While here, they will visit longhouses in Rantau Panjang, Bawang Assan and Nanga Sekuau where they will hold health talks and health screenings for the residents.
Since Wednesday, they had been holding a health exhibition and free screenings for members of the public at the Sanyan building.
The main objective of the annual activity is to produce medical students who will be responsive and proactive in shouldering the future national health agenda.
It is to promote awareness among the people on their own responsibility to always observe a high standard of health.
Deputy Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Robert Lau Hoi Chew when launching the programme Thursday reminded the students that the society placed high hopes on them as future doctors and health officers.
He said it was very important that they obtained the necessary knowledge, training and skill.
Lau said there were doctors who were reluctant to give words of encouragement or assurance to their especially elderly patients when this could make a great deal of difference in their treatment.
Lau was represented by the Bukit Assek state assemblyman Daniel Ngieng Kok Ann at the function.