Semuanya bermula di sini…

It has been 2 weeks since I started working as a Pegawai Farmasi Provisional (PRP) at Hospital Sultanah Aminah (HSA), Johor Bahru… Life has been pretty hectic ever since… 

It started on the 2^nd of August 2011 (because 1^st August coincided with 1 Ramadhan, a public holiday in Johor) at the Wisma Persekutuan JB.

Here, we (8 of us from UIAM) were asked to lapor diri at the Jabatan Kesihatan Negeri Johor. 

Wisma Persekutuan JB, Jalan Ayer Molek... JKN Johor dalam bangunan ni...

The process here takes just about 10 minutes, we were just asked to fill in a few forms and submit a few photocopied items. Here, I accidentally ran into Ain Yasin and Rose (my schoolmates). Both were there to lapor diri as housements.

Then we got going to Menara MSC Cyberport (a.k.a Menara Sarawak) to the Bahagian Farmasi Negeri Johor to know our penempatan. 

At first, I kinda hated the idea of having to lapor diri at 2 places (why not just 1 kan?), but after much thought, I think that at least this is the kind of autonomy that we should be proud of as pharmacists, our penempatan is not decided by the Jabatan Kesihatan Negeri, but by our very own Bahagian Farmasi. 

 

Neway, we were told to wait for all 8 of us to arrive before proceeding to the agenda. Miss Melissa Hong, the pharmacist in charge of PRP at Bahagian Farmasi listed out all the choices available for us, 5 posts at HSA, 2 posts at Hospital Segamat, and 1 post at Hospital Batu Pahat. We were asked to discuss and choose ourselves, but if fail to reach any agreement, it will be decided by drawing lots.

Azlen chose Hosp Batu Pahat, Farah Hani and Mariam – Hosp Segamat, Fatimah – HSA… So that left us 4 guys (me, topek, matto and gigi) with HSA… It was not where we expected to be posted but at least we got stuck together, takde la sorang-sorang nak cari rumah etc kan...

We were given letters addressed to our respective Pengarah Hospital and were asked to lapor diri at the hospitals as soon as possible (because gaji start kira dari hari lapor diri di hospital).

Bahagian Farmasi dalam bangunan ni... Jauh gak dari Wisma Persekutuan tu...

At HSA, we were directed to Puan Zainon, a staff at the office of Pengarah Hospital. Then it was time to fill in lots and lots of paperwork. 

Around 3pm, we (5 of us) made our way to lapor diri at Ketua Jabatan Farmasi HSA (a.k.a Ketua Pegawai Farmasi). We talked for a while and then we were passed on to another pharmacist to go to DIS unit.

There, we met, Puan Zarina (also the head of DIS), the one in charge of new PRPs. We were given a tour around all the different units in pharmacy department, followed by an orientation about holidays, work etc (I almost dozed off in exhaustion during this part).

Before we punched out for the day, we were assigned our first placement. Topek and me were assigned to In-patient (ward supply) pharmacy, Matto and gigi were assigned to Out-patient pharmacy while Fatimah was assigned to DIS unit. 

For the next 4 weeks, we would be expected to work our asses off in these units and then move on to other units to complete our rotation.

By the time we punched out, it was already 5.30pm. Exhausted, and still homeless, we decided to squat at Azwadi’s (our senior) house near Hospital Sultan Ismail (which is quite far from HSA). That wraps up my lapor diri day. 

Hospital Sultanah Aminah, JB...

Mesti korang pening baca kena lapor diri kat banyak tempat (5 places) sebelum mula kerja, ya memang penat dan memeningkan. Hehe.