Community Outreach Programme 2009

Credits to UM Pharmacy 3rd year students for successfully organizing such a meaningful and memorable event for both the Selayang public and UM Pharmacy students. You guys are terrific!

Venued at Selayang Cheshire Home, hundreds of Selayang locals and the OKU from the Home itself, thronged here to get a look at the health exhibition, health screening (Body Mass Index, blood glucose and blood pressure), counseling on their screening values and also the medications they're taking. Five PRPs from UMMC and the final year students were stationed at the exhibition and counseling counters, ready to serve the people who came for them. Not forgetting there were games and prizes up for grab for the kids! Generous sponsors such as Yakult were also there, giving out free nutrituous drinks; Hovid sponsoring free samples of Vitamin C, Uphamol 650 and vitamin suspension. ** I brought back packets of Vitamin C, coming in sour plum and orange flavours.. They were yummy, that I got 'overdosed' of them, haha~ **











I was lucky that I got into the counseling group in the last minute. The campaign gave me a good opportunity to practise counseling and I had my first time giving real counseling to the public there, with the aid from UMMC PRPs. Thanks to Kai Siang for letting me join the counseling group!




Although the campaign just lasted for a couple of hours, the public response was great and the students were happy that they managed to provide some health awareness to the Selayang people at the very least.







Hope that Community Outreach Programme will become an annual activity of the Pharmacy Society.

Cheers to UM Pharmacy!!!