Kubang Pasu District

Time: 2pm

Venue: Meeting room

Activity: Health promotion En Amir Faruq

Around 230pm Dr Sapna and her team came to visit us and ask us about the progress in our DHO posting. They asked what we have done the past few days and asked us different questions that we later found out from the respective units.

Later, after the meeting, we had a talk on Health Promotion which was given by Encik Amir Faruq. He told us the functions and objectives of health promotion. There are only 3 persons handling the unit. This unit is operational all year round and they have certain targets to be accomplished by the end of the year.

He also explained to us about ‘Program Doktor Muda’ and PROSTAR.

-‘Program Doktor Muda’: This program is for the primary school students (standard 4-6). However, only the selected few which are the grade A students, are chosen for this program. This program was introduced in 1998 and fully functionally in year 2000. This program is conducted up to the national level. The main objective of this program is to expose the young minds to general health.

-‘PROSTAR’: This program is for secondary school students, where the main objective is to nurture and cultivate good morale among the teenagers.

The main objective of PROSTAR is ,To increase awareness and knowledge of the dangers of HIV infection, prevention and control measures, To instill a positive attitude amongst teenagers about the problems of HIV which is also connected to teenage social issues, To encourage teenagers to practice healthy lifestyle and to stay away from high risk behaviors’ that may put them at risk for HIV infection, To form a group of Pembimbing Rakan Sebaya (PRS) who can influence teenagers towards healthy living and also to encourage them to fight AIDS, and finally To create a group of PRS who would take the role as social service volunteers to give support service to other teenagers.

Although others such as NCD and CDC department also doing health promotion, this department will give the ideas and encourage some activities that are suitable during their health promotion. They will help each other’s among their department

Among the other activities that they do are under health promotion are:

-Exhibition

-Health Campaign

-Carnival; which is usually conducted for 3 days.

-Talks