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  • MOH Pantau Kes Salmonella Yang Meningkat, Lebih 1,000 Kes Dilapor

    MOH Pantau Kes Salmonella Yang Meningkat, Lebih 1,000 Kes Dilapor

    Apabila Cik Chia mula mengalami sakit perut, beliau menyangka ia tidak serius. Beliau memakan ubat penghilang kesakitan, dan berfikir rasa sakitnya itu akan hilang.

    Bagaimanapun, beliau muntah sebanyak dua kali dan mengalami cirit birit sehingga 10 kali sehari.

    “Saya tidak tahu apa yang saya makan, kerana Singapura amat bersih dan saya hanya makan makanan biasa seperti di pusat penjaja, dan saya langsung tidak ke luar negara,” katanya.

    Cik Chia dimasukkan ke hospital keesokan harinya dan disahkan dijangkiti gastroenteritis salmonella atau radang perut dan usus salmonella pada 8 Mei.

    Keadaan beliau itu disebabkan oleh patogen yang dibawa oleh makanan yang boleh menyebabkan cirit birit, muntah-muntah, sakit perut dan demam.

    Cik Chia antara 1,042 orang yang dijangkiti salmonella sejauh ini pada 2016. Menurut maklumat yang dikeluarkan Kementerian Kesihatan (MOH) di lamannya, bilangan orang yang dijangkiti meningkat saban tahun.

    Sejak 2012, jumlah kes meningkat sekitar 30 peratus kepada sekitar 2,000 pada 2015. Trend ini nampaknya akan berterusan, dengan jumlah kes yang dilaporkan pada 2016 melebihi 779 sejauh ini berbanding jumlah kes yang dilaporkan antara Januari hingga 20 Jun tahun lalu.

    Dalam kenyataan kepada Mediacorp, jurucakap MOH berkata salmonellosis yang dijangkiti manusia biasanya ada kaitan dengan makan daging ayam itik, daging dan telur yang tercemar.

    Jurucakap itu menambah bahawa MOH sedang bekerja rapat dengan Penguasa Pertanian Makanan dan Ternakan (AVA) dan Agensi Sekitaran Kebangsaan (NEA) untuk memantau situasi dan memahami lebih baik sebab mengapa kes itu meningkat.

    BAGAIMANA SALMONELLA DIRAWAT?

    Dr Desmond Wai, pakar gastroenterologi di Hospital Mount Elizabeth Novena, berkata bakteria itu tidak dibawa oleh udara namun menarik perhatian ia boleh menular menerusi najis dan oral.

    “Pesakit yang dijangkiti salmonella akan mempunyai bakteria pada najis mereka. Jadi jika mereka tidak membasuh tangan betul-betul, menyentuh objek lain, menyiapkan makanan untuk orang lain, mereka boleh menyebabkan jangkitan menular kepada orang lain,” kata Dr Wai.

    Beliau menambah bahawa salmonella boleh terdapat pada daging mentah ayam itik dan telur, dan boleh menular menerusi perhubungan sesama manusia.

    “Salmonella terutamanya boleh masuk ke ovari ayam. Jadi dalam kuning telur itu, mungkin ada bakterianya. Mereka yang makan telur separuh masak atau telur mentah boleh dijangkiti,” kata Dr Wai.

    “Jika anda membasuh ayam yang mengandungi salmonella, tangan kita atau air yang disimbah pada sink mungkin mengandungi bakteria,” jelasnya.

    Di Singapura, AVA menjalankan pemeriksaan secara kerap untuk memastikan makanan yang diimport bebas daripada jangkitan. Produk-produk juga mesti mematuhi piawai dan peraturan keselamatan makanan tempatan, kata jurucakap AVA kepada Mediacorp.

    “Ujian-ujian sampel kami meliputi pelbagai bahan cemar dan bahan mikrobiologi yang mendatangkan bahaya seperti antibiotik dan hormon serta bahan mikrob yang berbahaya seperti Salmonella,” kata jurucakap itu, sambil menambah produk-produk yang tercemar tidak dibenarkan dijual dan akan dimusnahkan.

    Meskipun Pemerintah mengambil langkah berhati-hati untuk mengelak makanan tercemar dari diimport ke Singapura, orang ramai juga harus memainkan peranan seperti menerapkan amalan kebersihan yang baik, seperti membasuh tangan dengan air dan sabun sebelum makan, kata Dr Wai.

    Bagi Cik Chia, yang masih beransur pulih dari jangkitan salmonella, beliau kini menumpukan lebih banyak perhatian kepada amalan kebersihan.

    “Selain membasuh tangan dengan sabun dengan lebih kerap, saya juga menggunakan bahan cuci tangan untuk pakar bedah sebelum makan,” ujarnya.

    Source: Berita MediaCorp

  • Please Help: Old Wheelchair-Bound Grandma Lives With Deaf-Mute Daughter, Sons In Prison

    Please Help: Old Wheelchair-Bound Grandma Lives With Deaf-Mute Daughter, Sons In Prison

    Hi Gilbert

    My grandma is 70+, no ability to walk and on wheelchair. She is living in a rental flat with her special-needs daughter – my aunt. She is deaf and mute and works PT in a school.

    Her 2 other sons are in prison and her flat rental was $33 but recently increased to $111.

    She needs grocery for the coming Hari Raya period. Thanks.

    Any help is appreciated.

    Naana

     

    Source: Gilbert Goh

  • Ria 89.7 Listener: Contemporary Malay Songs Have No Soul, Meaning

    Ria 89.7 Listener: Contemporary Malay Songs Have No Soul, Meaning

    Was listening to Ria 89.7 for the Raya vibes. I came to realize that Malay songs nowadays are so painfully absurd to hear. Imagine song titles like “Boleh Blah”, “Selfie” and some other stupid song titles with even shittier lyrics.

    That’s Malay for you.

    If it’s not a song about heartbreak, its a literally meaningless song about random stuffs.

    The music industry is literally me-Layu-ing.

    Call me an old soul, but at least SM Salim and gang have lots of meaningful advice in their songs for us.

     

    Source: Mohsin Shafaruddin

  • Father Of Abused Toddler, Daniel: I Never Got To See My Son Alive

    Father Of Abused Toddler, Daniel: I Never Got To See My Son Alive

    He was in prison when his son was born.

    Day after day, he counted down the days to when he could hold his boy in his arms.

    But when Mr Mohamad Nasser Abdul Gani could finally do that, it was too late.

    The only time he got to hold Mohamad Daniel Mohamad Nasser was when he was about to bury him.

    His son died on Nov 23 last year, about a month before his third birthday, after 25 days of sustained abuse by his mother, Zaidah, 41, and her live-in boyfriend, Zaini Jamari, 46.

    Choking back tears, Mr Nasser, 41, told The New Paper yesterday: “I never got to see him alive.

    “The only time I held him in my arms, he was a lifeless corpse.”


    Mr Mohamad Nasser Abdul Gani. TNP PHOTO: JEREMY LONG

    He said he had spent 18 months behind bars from December 2012 to June 2014 for drug-related offences.

    Two months before he went in, Mr Nasser was informed by Zaidah, whom he had married in Batam and later divorced, that she was pregnant with his child.

    A few weeks into his sentence, Mr Nasser said an officer asked him to sign a document, which informed him that he was the father to a boy named Daniel.

    This gave him something to look forward to after serving his time.

    “I told myself that I would find my son after I got out,” said Mr Nasser, who works as a cleaner.

    LONG SEARCH

    But after his release, he found out that Zaidah was no longer living at her old address.

    Making it his top priority to find Daniel, Mr Nasser reached out to Zaidah’s friends, tried all possible phone numbers he could think of and even visited places he thought she might frequent.

    A year of searching yielded no results. None of his friends or acquaintances knew where Zaidah and Daniel were.


    Mohamad Daniel Mohamad Nasser died about a month before his third birthday. PHOTO: ABDU MANAF AL ANSARI

    Frustrated by each failed attempt to find his boy, he started losing hope of ever meeting Daniel.

    Mr Nasser, who has two older children from a previous marriage, said: “I was not even given a chance to meet my own son.

    “I did everything I could, but they could not be found anywhere. I thought that I would never see or hear about Daniel ever again.”

    About five months later, on the evening of Nov 26 last year, he finally got news about his son. It was a call from a police officer, who asked if he had a son named Daniel.

    Mr Nasser excitedly said yes, thinking that after more than two years, they would finally get to meet. But what he thought was good news brought his world crashing down.

    The officer told him the heartbreaking news that Daniel had died after being abused.

    “I did not even get to see Daniel alive, and now they called me to identify his dead body,” Mr Nasser said.

    Putting aside his anguish, Mr Nasser went to the mortuary the next day and saw his son for the first time.

    It left him in tears.

    CUTS AND BRUISES

    “There were cuts and bruises everywhere on his tiny body,” he said.

    “It broke my heart to look at him, my own flesh and blood, knowing that he had been hurt and tortured so badly.”

    Mr Nasser collected Daniel’s body on Nov 30.

    It was to be the first and last day that he would get to hold his son.

    That same afternoon, he and seven of his family members buried Daniel.


    Mr Mohamad Nasser Abdul Gani (extreme right) with his family members at the burial site of his son. PHOTO: ABDU MANAF AL ANSARI

    His brother, Mr Abdu Manaf Al Ansari, said that though they did not get to know Daniel, the family loved him and wanted to make sure he was given the proper last rites.

    “We are the paternal side that Daniel could have grown up with,” he told The New Paper.

    “Daniel was not an outcast, not from a broken family. He had a good family, only that he was denied true love from us.”

    Asked what he would have told his son if he were still alive, Mr Nasser broke down before saying he would have promised Daniel that he would be the best father possible.

    “He was my own son, I did not get to do anything for him, did not get to hold him, or tell him that I love him,” he said.

    “I would have given anything for the opportunity to take care of him.”

    I did not even get to see Daniel alive, and now they called me to identify his dead body.

    – Mr Mohamad Nasser Abdul Gani

    We are the paternal side that Daniel could have grown up with. Daniel was not an outcast, not from a broken family. He had a good family, only that he was denied true love from us.

    – Daniel’s uncle, Mr Abdu Manaf Al Ansari

     

    Source: www.tnp.sg

  • Muslim Kakak: Embrace The Smells Of Community Living, Move To Jungle If Unhappy

    Muslim Kakak: Embrace The Smells Of Community Living, Move To Jungle If Unhappy

    Everyday my neighbors.. Let me tell u …on my right is from Arab,on my left is a Thai family,the rest are Cantonese Chinese,below my flat is a Chinese family, all cook different dishes and smells of foods will fly around the beautiful aroma..

    sometimes salted fish, belacan,curry,pork or tomyum, and IRS getting stronger…but again..I love all the smells..even they cook pork..

    I’m OK with it…even stronger, just next door..I dun complaint, coz..we are all happy neighbors,

    I just live here 2mths only,I’m happy, though they are aunties and uncles, abit chatty…I’m so loving them..

    if you complaint..PLEASE stay IN JUNGLE OK!!!

     

    Source: Nur Q’Edora Ling

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