Monday, January 19, 2009

Random Rambling " health and occupational hazards"

Maldivian health care facilities has some sort of problems ranging from equipment failure to wrong diagnosis. as i see health care industry of maldives is a business , rather than a human service working to give the people better health. doctors and nurses being one of the most important people in the hospital area, and most likely to be blamed for any wrong done that either, costs the patients life, or he narrowly escapes to give the information to a newspaper which digs more crap and write a load of bullshit. for one thing the main reason most people feed their kids to become a doctor is for the money. At first its always about imagine all the innocent people you can cure and what a good deed it will be , later it becomes its one of the highest paying jobs you will ever find. Anyways Im not concerned about why they become a doctor and it wasnt what i had in my mind to talk about either.
Growing up i considered the janitors jobs are rather very low, but working in a hospital in Malaysia and being around medical staffs I have learnt to respect them more than the highly paid master minds who started the hospital business or the doctors who treat them. People treat them like shits at schools, offices, and at hospitals while they are the people who actually cleans the mess after you have shitted. I've seen doctors and nurses even the patients screaming their heads off and talking to them as if they are retarded. I 've seen grown men cry because of the lowly yelling they recieves because they were a bit too late to arrive to clean a puke mess. it was really disturbing. though most of us thinks that the janitors are not usually the type of people who are educated to well know a virus from RNA , i think its a wise choice to have janitors working in the hospital field educated.
I recently discovered that most of the Maldivian cleaners both working in IGMH and ADK arent well educated enough to know what kind of waste they are handling. I ve heard a woman tell a collegue that she takes home the used syringes after washing them to her children hoping that they would grow up to become a nurse or a doctor... is that even allowed, arent there some strict regulation where the disposal of these kind of stuff is striclty regulated. this is where the education part comes. No you dont have to give them scholarships so they can study up to a degree, but wouldnt an awareness course on subjects that acutally apply to their field be conducted? some of you might wonder how on earth would an emptying of a dustbin be so difficult that one needs to conduct a course on such subjects. im talking about health, occupational hazards, what are they disposing, is it safe to dispose them that way. how hard is it hold a broom and sweep clean an dusty and dirty floor or how hard is it to wash a toilet using all those ammonium based toilet cleaners, and how does it feel when toilet cleaners get mixed with ordinary bleach. (the last bit is a place where common sense is applied)
ever thought of providing the sweepers with masks so they dont come down with colds, or inhale some chemical fumes that may actually lead to more serious health problems.
im not calling the hard working cleaning departments consists of ignorant workers, im just saying that it would be wise to make them even more aware... they arent retarted, just like you and me they are also ignorant to certain things , why not make them more aware?

THIS IS JUST A RANDOM RAMBLING ... so please no hard feelings if any one felt they ve been called dumb or retarded

3 comments:

paperclippenny said...

This is good issue you've brought to light here

aesha said...

not only the health department have to do the awareness programme. we can also do awareness programmes through media cuz its one thing they will check while they go home after work..maybe radio might be a good media for it

salhi

Khilath Rasheed - journalist and blogger from Maldives said...

I think these awareness programs are looooooong over due. Nice post.