The choice is yours..
My elective attachment to the IIUM Breast Centre is actually a form of lame reason to stay here in Kuantan n lepak2 a bit before the final year come and strip all the sleep away..I guess we achieved that as I have to admit that there’s nothing much to do there, but still there are one ot two things that can be learned.
Our activities so far include doing home visit to post-mastectomy (removal of the breast) patient, visiting breast cancer patient in the ward, public education talk at a factory and meeting with Amanita founder, Dee Sidhu. The meeting was particularly interesting as Dee (an Irish, married to a Malaysian) herself was a breast cancer survivor, had bilateral mastectomy and had a reconstruction. U’ll never guessed that when u saw how vibrant, cheerful and full of enthusiasm she was, it was almost contagious. She was here to promote her shop which sell breast prosthesis for post mastectomy patient she set up in Ampang.
2 weeks here and i noticed that most of the ladies who came to the breast center are mostly Chinese. Might be because the breast center is a private wing of IIUM (Mamography for RM150, Ultrasound RM70) but probably the Chinese are more concern and aware, with more knowledge and better attitude towards health. The Malays are usually the one who come late to seek treatment, because they went for bomoh n other alternative medicine first. Bukan suma bomoh tu tak betul, but when it comes to the matter of life n death, why dont u go to the one with researched results and real proof of your problem.
There is still more need to be done to correct our Malay attitude n awareness of health. Surely, its easier said than done. But i believe that small changes will always lead to big changes. And always start with yourself.
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