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We Love , We Care 2.0

Helping the Underprivileged Community

INTI International University Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Club was established in June 2012. The club aims to be able to provide health care to those who are not able to do so due to financial difficulties. In addition, we would also like to increase the personal health awareness and provide alternative health care knowledge among these people through TCMUp to now, charity care is one of the significance components of the club’s mission. In the previous years, the TCM club has constantly collaborated with external charity organizations such as Tzu Chi and Remedic Healthcare Foundation (RHF), to provide basic medical health care for the poor and the destitute as well as teaching them to improve their health. We also had collaborated with China Medical University (CMU) for the charity treatment events.Our club strongly believes that everyone has the right to receive adequate medical care regardless of their social statusand should able to access medical assistance. As a matter of human dignity, everyone is entitled to health care. To that end, healthcare should be considered an essential building block for a healthy community. Sadly to say that through our regular visits to different places, there are still have low-income groupswho do not receive adequate healthcare.We often meet frail elderly and bedridden patients who need financial support and help for medical attention. Meanwhile, despite the subsidy from the government, some patients are still not able to afford the escalated medical costs. As a result, these would lead to deterioration of health and quality of lifeHealth is always above everything else because unhealthy people couldn’t carry out their daily life as usual. It is my belief that through providing medical education as well as treatment to the needy, this allows them to take care of themselves when medical assistance is not available. Hence, we are eager to serve the communities.The venue of this event will be in “Sekichan KHIND Company”. According to our survey, the communities in this area are mostly suffering from dampness syndrome such as Rheumatism. This is because due to their career mostly in Sekichan is regular contact with water such as fisherman, farmer. According to the theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a person with regular contact with water and wind attach, this kinds of situation will be easily develop dampness in their body, the dampness easily to attack and accumulate in joint, muscle. In the long term periods, it will become serious and leads to serious pain in joint and muscle. In medical term, we named it as “Rheumatism “or “Rheumatic disorder”.What is Rheumatism? Rheumatism or rheumatic disorder is a conditions causing chronic, often intermittent pain affecting the joints or connective tissue. This is also marked byinflammation and pain in the joints, muscles. The therapeutic interventions in such disorders is called rheumatology. This situation can be solved by using acupuncture technique.We have learned the theory and practical applications of acupuncture. Acupuncture is very efficient in treating people who are experiencing Rheumatology pain such as joint pain, lumbar sprain, knee pain, headache and others. If acupuncture is applied together with the Chinese medicine, it will accelerate the recovery of the patients’ Rheumatology pain syndrome.To ensure the care of this project will be divided into two stages:Stage 1, the team will identify the needs of the community.Patients with Rheumatolog pain syndromewho are unable to afford medical treatment will be selected for the program. Besides providing acupuncture treatment and prescribing medicine on the spot there will be booths set up to explain and teach the public on the methods to differentiate body constitution , as well as train the public to applyacu-point pressing and basic tuina techniquesto relieveRheumatologypain syndromes. Distribution of booklets regarding acu-point pressing and basic tuina techniques to the communities will be done.An information corner will be set up so that more people can get the information.At the same time, we will follow-up the condition of the particular patients, trace the level ofRheumatology pain after they practiced basic tuinatechnique. Consequently, tuina techniques training and Qi-Gong training will be carried out.Besides, we will provide basic knowledge regarding raw Chinese herbs. By teaching them to differentiate variety herbs with the flavor of herbs, they will be able to boil herbs according to their needs in order to improve their health.Stage 2, an analysis will be prepared to compare the scale ofRheumatology pain of the patients before and after practicing basic tuina techniques that taught by us. So that they will be able to cultivate and improve their health condition.In conclusion, we will expand our charity care throughout different places which lack of medical services and poor communities in the future. Besides that, it is also a pathway for them to know more about Traditional Chinese medicine. The charity event should be continued in order to create the awareness of health to the people as the saying goes, health is above the wealth.

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Overview of Issue / Background

INTI International University Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Club was established in June 2012. The club aims to be able to provide health care to those who are not able to do so due to financial difficulties. In addition, we would also like to increase the personal health awareness and provide alternative health care knowledge among these people through TCM

Up to now, charity care is one of the significance components of the club’s mission. In the previous years, the TCM club has constantly collaborated with external charity organizations such as Tzu Chi and Remedic Healthcare Foundation (RHF), to provide basic medical health care for the poor and the destitute as well as teaching them to improve their health. We also had collaborated with China Medical University (CMU) for the charity treatment events.

Our club strongly believes that everyone has the right to receive adequate medical care regardless of their social statusand should able to access medical assistance. As a matter of human dignity, everyone is entitled to health care. To that end, healthcare should be considered an essential building block for a healthy community. Sadly to say that through our regular visits to different places, there are still have low-income groupswho do not receive adequate healthcare.

We often meet frail elderly and bedridden patients who need financial support and help for medical attention. Meanwhile, despite the subsidy from the government, some patients are still not able to afford the escalated medical costs. As a result, these would lead to deterioration of health and quality of life

Health is always above everything else because unhealthy people couldn’t carry out their daily life as usual. It is my belief that through providing medical education as well as treatment to the needy, this allows them to take care of themselves when medical assistance is not available. Hence, we are eager to serve the communities.

The venue of this event will be in “Sekichan KHIND Company”. According to our survey, the communities in this area are mostly suffering from dampness syndrome such as Rheumatism. This is because due to their career mostly in Sekichan is regular contact with water such as fisherman, farmer. According to the theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a person with regular contact with water and wind attach, this kinds of situation will be easily develop dampness in their body, the dampness easily to attack and accumulate in joint, muscle. In the long term periods, it will become serious and leads to serious pain in joint and muscle. In medical term, we named it as “Rheumatism “or “Rheumatic disorder”.

What is Rheumatism? Rheumatism or rheumatic disorder is a conditions causing chronic, often intermittent pain affecting the joints or connective tissue. This is also marked byinflammation and pain in the joints, muscles. The therapeutic interventions in such disorders is called rheumatology. This situation can be solved by using acupuncture technique.

We have learned the theory and practical applications of acupuncture. Acupuncture is very efficient in treating people who are experiencing Rheumatology pain such as joint pain, lumbar sprain, knee pain, headache and others. If acupuncture is applied together with the Chinese medicine, it will accelerate the recovery of the patients’ Rheumatology pain syndrome.

To ensure the care of this project will be divided into two stages:

Stage 1, the team will identify the needs of the community.Patients with Rheumatolog pain syndromewho are unable to afford medical treatment will be selected for the program. Besides providing acupuncture treatment and prescribing medicine on the spot there will be booths set up to explain and teach the public on the methods to differentiate body constitution , as well as train the public to applyacu-point pressing and basic tuina techniquesto relieveRheumatologypain syndromes. Distribution of booklets regarding acu-point pressing and basic tuina techniques to the communities will be done.An information corner will be set up so that more people can get the information.

At the same time, we will follow-up the condition of the particular patients, trace the level ofRheumatology pain after they practiced basic tuinatechnique. Consequently, tuina techniques training and Qi-Gong training will be carried out.Besides, we will provide basic knowledge regarding raw Chinese herbs. By teaching them to differentiate variety herbs with the flavor of herbs, they will be able to boil herbs according to their needs in order to improve their health.

Stage 2, an analysis will be prepared to compare the scale ofRheumatology pain of the patients before and after practicing basic tuina techniques that taught by us. So that they will be able to cultivate and improve their health condition.

In conclusion, we will expand our charity care throughout different places which lack of medical services and poor communities in the future. Besides that, it is also a pathway for them to know more about Traditional Chinese medicine. The charity event should be continued in order to create the awareness of health to the people as the saying goes, health is above the wealth.

Project Objectives (Vision & Mission)

1. Provide charity care to the rural area which lack of medical services.
2. Help the patients who haveRheumatismto reduce the pain.
3. Provide some basic teaching of Traditional Chinese medicine to the local communities of “Sekinchan” so that they can take care of themselves even we are not around in the future.
4. Increase personal and public awareness on health-related issues.
5. Improve the health of local communities.
6. Promote the value of traditional and modern Chinese Medicine so that the public can understandmore about Traditional Chinese Medicine treatment

Project Details (Activities and Tasks)

The activities that we are focusing for this event will be Chinese Medicine and acupuncture treatment on patient withRheumatism as well as disease preventive management techniques as we want the local communities from “Sekichan”able to take care of themselves when medical services are not reachable. For the treatment part we will focus as the following:

1. Establishing rapport with the community – Visiting and meeting leaders to present our proposal and obtaining approval. 
2. Advertising our event to the community.
3. Patients who suffering fromRheumatism and facing financial problem to seek for medical treatments. 
4. Services to be offered – Consultation, Treatments such as prescribing Chinese medicine, acupuncture, Tuina, cupping and etc., preventive health management and some Traditional Chinese Medicine basic teaching.
5. Distribute the educational booklets to the local communities.
6. Set up a mini information corner with some TCM posters and life size stand foam standee. Life size stand foam standee is mainly related to the understanding of body constitution.
7. Follow up visits – Continuously taking care of the patients with Chinese Medicine consultation and treatments.

For preventive management, we will provide some basic teaching when the patients are waiting at the registration area. Besides that, we will set up a three booths for variety teaching. The booths are:

1. Chinese herbs identification and herbal drinks cooking teaching booth;
2. Body constitution booth – which will lead the patient to differentiate their own body constitutionand consuming healthy food to strengthen their health;
3. Tuina and Qi-gong booths – to train the patients about basics Tuina techniques and Qi gong, sothat they can practice themselves at home. 

We will try our best to allocate a Chinese physician for each booth to explain the doubt of the patients.

We will separate the tasks into the following departments:

1. Physician :

  • Invite experienced qualified physician to provide consultation and treatment.

2. Team Leader:

  • Coordinate all tasks and activities between the departments and make sure there is a clear concept regarding the procedures between the departments.

3. Internal Medicine Department

  • Responsible to train the volunteers who are in charge of internal medicine affairs.

4. Acupuncture and traumatology department

  • Responsible to train the selected volunteers with acupuncture sterilization and operating procedure.

5. Medicine dispensary department

  • Responsible for training selected volunteers with the necessary procedure during allocating the drugs and anything related to drugs distribution procedures.

6. Registration department

  • Responsible for registration procedure and the patient assigned procedure.

7. Health cultivation department

  • Responsible to train the selected volunteers with the technique for each booth.
  • Responsible to teach the patient the necessary techniques to help the patientswith their respective sickness so that they can take care of themselves.
  • Provide some healthcare information with selected volunteers to explain to patients while they are waiting.
  • Provide disease preventive management either in Tuina therapy or food therapy to the local communities.

8. Education department

  • Collect the information related to the treatments for pain syndrome treatments.
  • Design the life size stand foam standee and the educational booklets

9. Logistics Department

  • Responsible for table and chair arrangement as well as the floor design.

10. Marketing and public relation department

  • Responsible for advertisement, preparation of brochure and hall arrangement

Expected Project Result & Outcomes

  • Local communities have a clear picture on TCM treatment.
  • Local communities andthe patients have a basic medical knowledge on self-caring.
  • Local communities andthe patients able to identify several types of herbs which they can be used at home when they are sick.
  • Local communities andthepatients have basic understanding on disease prevention management.
  • Local communities andthe patients able to differentiate their own constitution.
  • The patients able to relieve the Rheumatismby applying the techniques they learned from this event in future.
  • Solve the main problem which is the Rheumatism suffered among the communities.
  • Build a long term relationship with the local communities and authorities.
  • Give more on-site experience and exposure to TCM students.
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Project Information

University name   :   INTI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Project leader name   :   NG CHU MIN

Section I

          INTI IU TCM Club had organized We Love, We Care 2.0 project, which is a medical charity event in Sekinchan, KHIND Holdings Berhad. This activity was divided into two days which is on 7th August 2016 and 4th September 2016. This project was focusing on Rheumatism patients who have pain syndrome. We are happy to announce that most of them getting better after receiving the treatment we gave. In this Project, we not only giving treatment but we also teach them some preventive method and some TCM knowledge, so that they can help themselves when the medical assistance is unavailable. 

INTI IU Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Club’s mission is to provide the best care to the public through TCM treatment and education. It is our belief that health is always above everything else because unhealthy people couldn’t carry out their daily life as usual. Through providing medical education as well as treatment to the needy, this allows them to take care of themselves when medical assistance is not available. Hence, we are eager to serve the communities. 

The objectives for carrying out this project are as below:

  1. Provide charity care to the rural area which lack of medical services.
  2. Help the patients who have Rheumatism to reduce the pain.
  3. Provide some basic teaching of Traditional Chinese medicine to the local communities of “Sekinchan” so that they can take care of themselves even we are not around in the future.
  4. Increase personal and public awareness on health-related issues.
  5. Improve the health of local communities.
  6. Promote the value of traditional and modern Chinese Medicine so that the public can understand more about Traditional Chinese Medicine treatment.

Our fund for this project is mainly from Khind Starfish Foundation which is 90% and 10% come from public. The activities that we are focusing for this event will be treatment as well as disease preventive management techniques as we want the local communities from Sekinchan, KHIND Holdings Berhad to be able to help them when medical services are unavailable.  We separated the progress of event into 7 stages which are:

1. Establishing rapport with the community

Visiting and meeting leaders to present our proposal and obtaining approval.  

      1. Advertising our event to the community.
      2. Patients who suffering from Rheumatism and facing financial problem to seek for medical treatments. 
      3. Services to be offered

Consultation, Treatments such as prescribing Chinese medicine, acupuncture, Tuina, cupping and etc., preventive health management and some Traditional Chinese Medicine basic teaching.

      1. Distribute the educational booklets to the local communities.
      2. Set up a mini information corner with some TCM posters and life size stand foam standee. Life size stand foam standee is mainly related to the understanding of body constitution.
      3. Follow up visits – Continuously taking care of the 30 patients with Chinese Medicine consultation and treatments.

      Throughout this event there are some difficulties we were facing:

    1. Some of the Malay can only understand Bahasa Malaysia, but some of our students cannot really understand or speak Bahasa Malaysia cause some of the students are International Students. So, we need translator to help them to explain again. Some of them can only speak Bahasa Malaysia, but most of our students are from Chinese High School who are mostly poor in speaking BM. So, this cause some communication problem among them.
    2. We did not separate the patients into batches and causing some of the patients waiting from morning until afternoon. But this problem was solved at the last stages.
    1. Some patients did not show up at the end after confirm their registration with us. 

 To ensure a long term care, I would divide my plans into three stages. Firstly, my team and I will continuously follow up the progression through local authorities to build a long term relationship with the community here and understand what they really need. Secondly, my club is still in the progression of discussion on the idea of “Mobile Clinic” helping us to reach those remote areas and offer our treatment more frequently. Thirdly, through collaboration with those medical associations and media, we can organize similar event more frequently through raising funds and publicize the local condition through media hoping to search for generous benefactors to ensure the continuity of the project. 

SECTION II

 To me, health should be the priority for human and it is a basic needs. Without health, ones will not feeling happy and couldn’t carry out their daily lifestyle as they always suffered in sicknesses. It is my belief that through providing medical education as well as treatment to the needy group, it allows them to take care of themselves. Hence, we are able to achieve the objectives of KHIND STARFISH FOUNDATION which is contributing happiness to the people. In short term, this event can relieve the medical expenses burden for those who are poor and in long term, it allows them to take care of themselves when their family or relatives are not around them.  

 After completed the charity event, I found out that a good health is very important for every one of us. In this project, we can see that many of the patients who was suffer from Rheumatism was a lot and don’t have long term methods to take care. Their reasons was no time to take care of them self due to working. So, a good health is very important to build a happiness family. I believe that through the charity we did this time, we not only treated their sickness, but our students was there to chit chatting with the local people there to understand more about their daily lifestyle and what they are doing.

 To end this report, I would like to use a quotes from mother Theresa “Love begins by taking care of the closets ones – The ones at home”. This project is not only teaching us how to love and how to care about the public, but the most important things is love and care your parents. As a future Chinese physician, I really appreciated for the chance I got this time to organized this charity event, because I can learn a lot of clinical experience that I cannot study from books and the most important things is I start to learn how to understand my parents and how to love them more. ‘Before you love the people in the world, make sure u did the same to your closets ones – your parents and your family.’

(NG CHU MIN)

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