Sejarah: Laporan Majalah KHS 1972

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Sejarah: Laporan Majalah KHS 1972 - ULANG TAHUN PERTAMA ST. JOHN SMK KUCHING HIGH

On the 3rd of July, 1971, our school received a letter from the ST. John Ambulance commissioner, Mr. Kho Ik Teck asking the school to encourage the students to join a new voluntary welfare organisation known as the St. John Ambulance Brigade. From then onwards recruits have been increasing as a result of the continued encouragement from the school.

Training lectures started early April this year and finished late August for the boys' section in the school. Lectures were given to the girls at the central Hospital early in July. The boys' received their training from Doctor Chua who came to teach the First Aid Duties. Demonstrations and practices were given to the recruits during every lecture. The girls were trained to do house nursing such as helping the patients to bath, changing of clothing etc. At the end of the training there was an examination.

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE (BOYS)

Training continues with such subjects as First Aid, Home Nursing, Hygiene, Child Welfare, Sanitation etc. Boys and girls between the age of 8 and 17 begin their work as Ambulance and Nursing cadets, and later enrol themselves in the Adult Divisions .

Briefly, St. John Ambulance is a world-wide welfare organisation organised for the youths, and by the youth. Its main purpose is to help the unfortunate for it enables men and women to learn and acquire knowledge about first Aid Duties , Nursing, Child Care ,. Sanitation and many other matters concerninghealth. Thus, member of the St. John Ambulance have a great part to play in the world-wide fight to make every man, woman and child well and strong and to reduce the sufferings of the unfortunate. The organization`aims at providing medical and health services to the public, inrespective of race, class or creed.

St. John Ambulance was founded in 1887 during the time of the Cremean War . In 1861, a knight of the most venerable order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, Sir John Purley, attended the first Geneva Convention and on his return to England, the order formed a National society. Its aim was to aid the sick and wounded in the war. Training of nurses were carried out and a stretcher service for use in collieries and other dangerous trades was established These were some of the activities which brought about the formation of the St. John Ambulance Association in 1877, and the St. John Ambulance Brigade in the year 1887. The work of the St. John Ambulance Brigade was extended to Overseas territories . In the Federation of Malaysia, it was founded in 1908.

The aims of the movements are:

(i) To train and maintain a body of men and women thorougly efficient in First Aid and Auxiliary Nursing.

(ii) To afford opportunities for holders of approved First Aid certificates to meet together for training and practice under qualified members of they Medical and Nursing professions, with the object of combing individual efforts in the service of the public.

(iii) To provide First Aid and Home Nursing for the injured and sick

(iv) To provide auxiliary services both to the sick and injured in Hospitals of all kinds.

(v) To provide Reserves for the Medical services of H.M. armed Forces.

(vi) To prepare such permanent organisation during times of peace as may at once be available in time of emergency.

(vii) To provide opportunities for boys and girls to learn and practise First Aid, Home Nursing and other subjects conducive to the training of good citizens.

Up to now, the St. John's members have_ not carried out any special activities. However, some members had participated in the parade during Hari Kebangsaan under Mr. Watson Ho's command, and carried out the First Aid duties on 9th and 10 September.

Lastly, on behalf of all members, I would like to express my heartiest thanks to our lecturer, Dr. Chua, and our advisor, Mr. Poon, without whose assistance and guidance our activities would not have been a success.

G. Josjustine
(member of the St. John)
September

ST. JOHN ANOULAREE (GIRLS A)

The Girl St. JOhn Ambulance has started in Kuching for the first time as well as in Kuching High School this year. The Girl St. John Ambulance of Kuching High School is divided into two groups: the Adult Group, called Group A, which consists of sixty students whose are above the age of fifteen years, while the Children Group, called Group C, which consists of seventy students of age below fifteen years. Group A started their first lecture on 12th July and they have their lectureon every Wednesday afternoon, while Group C started their first lecture on 14th July and now they also have their lecture on every Friday, and their lecture time is the same, starting from 4.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. at the Nursing Training Centre of the Old General Hospital where there are two senior nurses to teach us. The two groups have almost the same kind of lecture such as nursing, bandaging, dressing and things of how to look after patients.

I am one of the members of Group A and every Wednesday afternoon, we have our lectures in the Nursing Training Centre of The Old General Hospital. Now we already have had twelve lectures in which we have learnt many other things that nurses always learn.

During our Bandaging Lecture, sister Say, the nurse, who taught is brought one or two assistants with her to teach us how to bandage, and also give us brief not about it she got different kinds of bandages from the Nursing Training Centre's sisters and 'gave us lectures of how to bandage different parts of our bodies where we have wounds, with many.different kinds of bandages such as using roll bandages for bandaging the wounds or sores on the arms, and using the triangular bandagse for bandaging the wounds on our hands.

During our Nusring and Dressing Lecture, we sometimes have our lecture in the practical room and have our practical lectures of nursing and dressing. In our practical lectures, sister Say would show us a model of a man and taught us how to do bathing, nursing and^- dressing with alt required equ -ipment in the practical room and also asked us to practive nursing, dressing and bathing which she had already taught us, to let her saw our attempts.

Sister Say has told us that after we have had fifteen or sixteen lectures we would have our examination to see if our results are good or not. If we have passed, we would become the real members of Girl St. JOhn Ambulance.

I hope that all of the members of Group A will pass their examination of bandaging, nursing and dressing and become the members of Gril St. John Ambulance, and so will Group C. Last of all I also hope that we, members of Girl St. John Ambulance, will make Kuching High School's Girl St. John Ambulance a steady and firm one and. will always carry out our responsibilities and duties whenever we can.

Chang Chiew Kiaw