Few days back, just before I came back to KK, I had an afternoon scheduled for a trip one of the clinics that I have yet to visit till now, at Kg Tagas-Tagas, about 25 minutes by boat from Beluran jetty. The journey will take us upstream Sungai Labuk, rather than down to the open sea so the river width will get narrower and narrower as we go further.
There are a few clinics that are only accessible by boat under the administration of Beluran Health Office, though this is not one of them, but we decided that it is faster to travel by boat since I have a flight to catch later that day.
This is one of the boats we have in the district, small yes. Staffs from KD Kuala Sapi and KD Keniogan will usually commute by this one and they have to go through the open sea to come to Beluran. Imagine that.
Few are already beyond economical repair, like these two that are just hanging around at the Clinic dock.
I think this one is also already scheduled for BER, formerly used as water ambulance and vehicle for traveling clinic.
The staffs enjoying the afternoon breeze at our clinic jetty during lunch break.
The infamous 'klinik-2-alam' that can only be found in Beluran, as I was told. 2 alam because there are 2 entries to the clinic, via land and water. Half of the clinic is built on the river bank, while another portion extends to the water via stilts. Sadly the river part of the clinic is very fast decaying and already showing signs of collapse. We're currently waiting for approval for relocation to another site - also just as ancient - next to the district hospital. I hope we don't have to experience Titanic before we finally move out!
This is our ride for the day, a 27-footer with 300HP engines, complete with GPS trekker.
That day only 3 of us went for the visit, Chief Medical Assistant Sius, Sister Malin and myself.
Eksyen jerr wearing the cool life-jacket.
Carrying logs along the river.
The River getting narrower as we get further.
Sister Malin getting dizzy from the stench, actually the night before, Azman our boatman found a dead rat in the boat, most probably brought in by a cat... or is it because he also kept food in the boat. It was extremely unpleasing to have to sit in the stench throughout the trip but okay lah bah, style kampung kampung...
Some parts of the river was so still, believe that this was taken from a moving boat?
The weather for the day was very misleading, I thought it was going to rain looking at he clouds, but as we landed, the sun was out at its full strength.
Near the village.
Mmm... not a sight for the superstitious.
Kampung Tagas-Tagas.
Where are the clouds I saw earlier?
Signs that we're nearby a health facility...
And finally here...
First thing I did upon arrival was of course to put the fan on full blast and sit in front of it...
Maternal clients being attended to while Sister looked on to supervise.
Our problem in the district is still high rate of eclampsia. One of the remedial action we've taken is to put up eclampsia emergency kit in all the clinics and make sure all the nurses are on their toes about the management.
Don't think we're in the village and we won't know what technology looks like!
Half way through the visit we had news about an attempted break-in to one of our premises in town, with the window grills being sawed off... That's my tired and troubled face, thinking that we had to go through police report and all that stuff later when we get back to Beluran... sigh...
But luckily it was a false alarm, and I get go back to KK in peace...
This village also gets flooded during wet season, so some of the buildings are built on really high stilts like this school...
Children playing... reminds me of pictures that Rarindra Prakarsa would take, only much nicer when he does it.
Time to head home...
Weather was fine when we headed back, so I'll leave this one in colour.
Never thought you can plant palm trees right to the edge of the river...
There are a few clinics that are only accessible by boat under the administration of Beluran Health Office, though this is not one of them, but we decided that it is faster to travel by boat since I have a flight to catch later that day.
This is one of the boats we have in the district, small yes. Staffs from KD Kuala Sapi and KD Keniogan will usually commute by this one and they have to go through the open sea to come to Beluran. Imagine that.
Few are already beyond economical repair, like these two that are just hanging around at the Clinic dock.
I think this one is also already scheduled for BER, formerly used as water ambulance and vehicle for traveling clinic.
The staffs enjoying the afternoon breeze at our clinic jetty during lunch break.
The infamous 'klinik-2-alam' that can only be found in Beluran, as I was told. 2 alam because there are 2 entries to the clinic, via land and water. Half of the clinic is built on the river bank, while another portion extends to the water via stilts. Sadly the river part of the clinic is very fast decaying and already showing signs of collapse. We're currently waiting for approval for relocation to another site - also just as ancient - next to the district hospital. I hope we don't have to experience Titanic before we finally move out!
This is our ride for the day, a 27-footer with 300HP engines, complete with GPS trekker.
That day only 3 of us went for the visit, Chief Medical Assistant Sius, Sister Malin and myself.Eksyen jerr wearing the cool life-jacket.
Carrying logs along the river.
The River getting narrower as we get further.
Sister Malin getting dizzy from the stench, actually the night before, Azman our boatman found a dead rat in the boat, most probably brought in by a cat... or is it because he also kept food in the boat. It was extremely unpleasing to have to sit in the stench throughout the trip but okay lah bah, style kampung kampung...
Some parts of the river was so still, believe that this was taken from a moving boat?
The weather for the day was very misleading, I thought it was going to rain looking at he clouds, but as we landed, the sun was out at its full strength.
Near the village.
Mmm... not a sight for the superstitious.
Kampung Tagas-Tagas.
Where are the clouds I saw earlier?
Signs that we're nearby a health facility...
And finally here...
First thing I did upon arrival was of course to put the fan on full blast and sit in front of it...
Maternal clients being attended to while Sister looked on to supervise.
Our problem in the district is still high rate of eclampsia. One of the remedial action we've taken is to put up eclampsia emergency kit in all the clinics and make sure all the nurses are on their toes about the management.
Don't think we're in the village and we won't know what technology looks like!
Half way through the visit we had news about an attempted break-in to one of our premises in town, with the window grills being sawed off... That's my tired and troubled face, thinking that we had to go through police report and all that stuff later when we get back to Beluran... sigh...
But luckily it was a false alarm, and I get go back to KK in peace...This village also gets flooded during wet season, so some of the buildings are built on really high stilts like this school...
Children playing... reminds me of pictures that Rarindra Prakarsa would take, only much nicer when he does it.
Time to head home...
Weather was fine when we headed back, so I'll leave this one in colour.
Never thought you can plant palm trees right to the edge of the river...
1 comment:
waaa remote la doc but yet the view so nice... thanks for sharing with us... and i never been there yet! hah
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