Intro to HTAA and developmental milestones

What’s HTAA?
Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan. The teaching hospital we’re doing our practical at.

We had a session this morning with the Hospital Director. He explained stuff about the hospital; it’s history and structure etc.

I was sooooo bored and missing Nawaz that the only things I jotted down in my notebook were nonsensical thoughts of my boredom and my annoyingly diffuse and bilateral headache. I really believe that time practically dragged on as he spoke. I kept glancing at the watch every 2 seconds.

I guess some people just have mesmerizing voices. He was practically rocking me to sleep.

BUT, I did manage to get some cool facts from him. There are 9,000 deliveries in HTAA annually. That’s 750 births a month. Wow!

There’s also been an increase in the lab investigations ordered. Prolly cause everyone needs to be very, very confirmed of the diagnoses. And, the admission to the hospital has decreased from 2002. one reason was the dengue outbreak that year and secondly, may be the pertinent medical students buzzing around causes some discomfort for the patients. Hehe…

Okay the stats are;
MOPD - 18,612 > eye check up - 16,289 > orthopaedics - 16,413 > SOPD - 15,829
(medical outpatient dept, surgical OPD)

After that was an interesting lecture by Dr Siti Nor, a paediatrician. It was on the growth and developmental milestones of children. I was thinking of Nawaz all the time.

Some cool facts Yung,
• at birth babies look chubby coz of water. Then they lose weight when they lose this water. Within a week, they regain the lost weight.
• Nawaz will get stranger anxiety at 8 months old, that’ll be in November. U better make sure he recognizes his mak yang…
• At 9 mths he’ll be able to crawl, the commando crawl followed by the bear crawl
• 11 months baru die bley main “cak, cak” and jalan supported by the railings
• At 18 months baru his handedness develops. Means he starts using either his left or right side predominantly.

Banyak lagi but mestilah malas nak salin. I was just interested in what I’ll be looking forward to.