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Country: Malaysia
City: Kuala Lumpur
IHTC:
National Blood Centre - Pusat Darah Negara
Jalan Tun Razak
Kuala Lumpur 50400, Malaysia
Tel.: (603) 2693 3888
Fax: (603) 2698 0362
Email: norhanim@moh.gov.my
Website: www.pdn.gov.my
Director: Dr. Roshida Hassan
Responsible for training: Dr. Norhanim Asidin
Year of IHTC designation: 1998
Areas of specialty: General hemophilia care; transfusion medicine.
DESCRIPTION OF TRAINING PROGRAM
Clinical activities: The National Blood Centre serves as a national centre coordinationg planning and develoment of the transfusion service in the country as well as a regional centre for Kuala Lumpur and the surrounding region, providing its blood supply and other related services.
One of the its main functions is providing hemophilia care. It has a hemophilia daycare centre, where patients come for treatment. All patients are treated with factor concentrate. Approximately 100 cases are seen per week. The National Blood Centre is also the national referral centre where the national registry for hemophilia and other related disorders is kept.
As a regioonal blood centre, the facility collects, processes and tests all donated blood. Blood components are prepared in accordance with the principles of good manufacturing practice. There is a quality department to ensure services, blood components and products meet the quality standard that has been defined as well as customer's needs.
Laboratory activities/research: Contract fractionation is carried out whereby plasma is processed into factor VIII and I concentrates, intravenous immunoglobulin, and albumin. The other laboratory services include haematology, immunohaematology, HLA typing, and microbiology for transfusion transmitted diseases. The facility also houses the National Cord Blood Bank.
Multidisciplinary activities/research: Comprehensive treatment is provided together with various departments in Hospital Kuala Lumpur. Patients have easy access to medical, surgical, dentral, orthopedic, as well as physiotherapy services. Surgeries are conducted in Hospital Kuala Lumpur, where patients are admitted when necessary.
Additional information: The centre also provides a National Eternal Quality Assurance program in immunohaematology, hepatits B & C, haematology, and haemostasis and thrombosis.
DESCRIPTION OF IHTC FACILITIES
Location: The National Blood Centre in Malaysia is situated along Jalan Tun Razak, one of the premier roads in Kuala Lumpur.
Climate: The country is generally warm throughout the year with temperatures ranging from 21° to 32° Celsius. Malaysia has two distinct seasons. The dry season occurs during the south-west
monsoon from May and September. The northeast monsoon brings the rainy season to
the country during mid-November till March.
Accommodation (residence, meals, etc...): The hospital has various hostels for nurses and doctors within the compound or close by. Reasonable hotels are also in the vicinity. A wide variety of food is available and is reasonably priced. The cost of living is generally low.
Transportation: Public transport available.
Language: English, Malay, various Chinese dialects and Tamil.
Financial assistance: Dependent on WFH funds.
Cost of living (per week):
Communications tools for trainees: Computer, Internet access.
Other local support provided for trainees:
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS BY IHTC STAFF
Molecular Analysis of Factor VIII gene using DNA. Duraisamy G, Choo R, Fong I, Wong D, Lai PS and Jay JSH. 6th Asean Medical Laboratory Technologists at Putra World Trade Centre, 26-29 July 1995, Kuala Lumpur.
Genetic Counselling in Haemophilia A families. Duraisamy G, Lai PS, Choo R, Thiruchelvam A, 29th Congress of Medicine at Shangrila Hotel, 10-13 August 1995, Kuala Lumpur.
DNA Analysis of FVIII gnee in 50 haemophilia families in Malaysia. Duraisamy G, Lai PS, Choo PY and Thiruchelvam A. Proceedings of the Third Asia Pacific Conference on Medical Genetics, 2-4 December, 1997. |
