Annual report of the Sarawak Government Medical Department.

  • Sarawak. Medical Department
Date:
[1961]
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Credit: Annual report of the Sarawak Government Medical Department. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    122. The following table gives a summary of the examinations carried out at each individual laboratory:— Examinations Central Laboratory Health Centre Kuching Sarawak Mental Hospital R.C.B.M. Hospital Simanggang Hospital Sibu Hospital Miri Hospital Total Haematology 16,450 7,349 1,356 626 11,539 18,167 9,787 65,274 Serology 18,516 — 288 10 1,862 9,495 2,885 33,056 Biochemistry 9,430 10,186 736 296 4,531 9,487 6,024 40,690 Parasitology 7,935 20,816 1,776 342 7,808 14,708 8,284 61,669 Bacteriology 13,511 12,469 428 7,769 4,812 11,241 8,471 59,317 Total 65,842 50,820 4,584 9,043 30,552 63,398 35,451 260,006 123. In addition to the above examinations, the production of crystalloid solutions continued. The central syringe service at the Central Laboratory was extended and it is hoped to supply the whole hospital with sterile syringes, by the end of 1962. Although all blood transfusion services are run by voluntary agencies, the technical work of grouping and compatibility testing is done by the Government laboratory service. In Kuching, the Kuching Division of the British Cross Society provided a new blood bank refrigerator for use in the Kuching General Hospital, and this has enabled further expansion of the transfusion service. In Sibu, a prominent local businessman presented the Lau King Howe Hospital with a blood bank refrigerator, which has greatly assisted the transfusion service there, also. The figure for the Kuching service are given below, as compared with 1960. 1960 1961 Donors 638 1,004 Recipients 573 954 124. The main event affecting the Laboratory Service during the year, was the cholera outbreak. In Kuching 1,100 stools were examined, of which ninety- six were found to contain V. cholera. In Sibu thirty-five positive stools were found, out of a total of 859 examined. (d) X-ray Services 125. There are X-rav units attached to the General Hospitals in Kuching, Sibu, Miri and Simanggang, and the Chest Clinic, Kuching. In addition a mobile X-ray unit was in°taPed in the new hospital in Limbang during the year. The 100 m.m. OdeLa Camera, formerly in the Chest Clinic, Kuching, was transferred to the General Hospital, Kuching, and replaced bv a new 70 m.m. unit. A second 70 m.m. camera was sent to the Chest Clinic, Sibu, to replace an old 35 m.m. unit. A new mobile X-rav machine has been ordered for the new Sarikei Hospital, which is due to open early in 1962, and provision has been made in the 1962 estimates for the purchase of new equipment for the Lau King Howe Hospital, Sibu. 126. The personal monitoring service, introduced in 1960, to ensure that none of the staff are exposed to excessive doses of radiation, was continued during the year, and extended to cover all units.
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