Wednesday, May 19, 2010

KDU Celebrates Nurses Day

KDU College recently held its Nurses Day celebration together with the launching of its Consumer Club during the Healthy Lifestyle Campaign celebration at its premise. Director of Domestic Trade, Cooperative and Consumerism Penang, En. Abd Rahim bin Haji Hassan said that the campaign’s main focus is to get as many youths to be involved by imparting knowledge to be competent in making the right choices when buying goods or services. In his speech, he hopes that all schools and institutions of higher learning in Penang will have a Consumer Club by December this year.

To help the students and members of the public to be more aware of counterfeit goods, the officials from Consumer brought along products like cigarettes, perfumes, handbags for comparison by guiding them to differentiate the counterfeits. Among other activities on display are tuberculosis awareness exhibition, sugar awareness exhibition, demonstration on lenses, free body composition checkup and blood pressure test, talks on anti-smoking and H1N1, use of drugs and their consequences.

Dr.Chong Beng Keok, Principal of KDU College Penang cited that it is important to nurture student nurses the right path towards providing quality service in the healthcare industry. The theme for this year’s Nurse’s Day is “Delivering Quality, Serving Communities: Nurses Leading Chronic Care”. The Healthy Lifestyle Campaign also forsee Mr. Trevor Chan and Ms. Alice from AIESEC USM presenting an eye-opening talk about AIDS/HIV awareness with Its message to always take precautionary measures to avoid from getting infected with HIV virus. According to data from UNDP, there are about 84,000 people in Malaysia infected with HIV virus and it is important that every citizen takes responsibility to curb the spread.

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