ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

Our Services
St. John Ambulance was founded with the motto ‘For the Service of Mankind’. Our members volunteered to serve their communities through SJAM services. We offer many opportunities for volunteering, such as Standby Services, Ambulance Attachment Unit, Highway Emergency Ambulance Service, Non-emergency Transport Service, Charity Projects, and many more. Emergency Ambulance Support Service was also introduced in year 2003.

Emergency Medical Assistance Service (E.M.A.S.) was first introduced in SJAM Wilayah Persekutuan. It is now in Penang as a National Project. MCAD members are actively participating in this project in making it a sucess. Read more about EMAS Penang
It is important that our programme should be exciting and relevant to participants. It is also important to review our programmes and to introduce new services to keep our volunteers interested. In order to achieve all those goals, MCAD members are encouraged to participate in our policy making. Therefore they are part of the team, and we achieve our excellence together.
You may also help by being our Partner in Service to Mankind. We are looking forward for Partners to organise Community Service Projects, or to support community services, or projects that provide our volunteers chances of learning new knowledge and skills, or practise the skills they have learnt. Please do not hesitate to contact us. Let us create the Partnership in Service to Mankind.

Emergency Medical Assistance Service (EMAS)

EMAS is to station a Class-A equipped ambulance within Bayan Lepas area to reduce response time to any emergencies.
EMAS Penang will be the first community-based emergency ambulance service in the country, allowing our community to demonstrate the significant role of volunteerism in the community and the role of business in supporting its community.
St. John Ambulance is taking the lead toward a better ambulance service for all Malaysians.Read more about EMAS Penang

Charity Projects

It is our challenge to organise a Charity Project every year. We visited old folks homes to help cleaning up the place prior to Chinese New Year Celebration. We purchased medical supplies for the homes in addition to organise an entertainment programme for them.
We visited Silver Jubilee Home in year 2003. Our volunteers resuscitated an inmate who suffered cardiac arrest. He was then delivered to hospital with our ambulance. Unfortunately he passed away in hospital 4 hours later.
Our projects has so far reached Silver Jubilee Home, St. Joseph Home for Orphanages , Relau Rumah Charis Old Folks Home and the latest Rong Zhu Yuan Bhd. 感恩之家 Home for the Senior Citizens

First Aid Standby ServicesWhenever there is public gathering, there are SJAM Volunteers working to make the event safe.
Providing First Aid Standby Service for large public events is not new to MCAD volunteers. Neither is it to high-risk events. We have covered events like Thaipusam, Wesak Day Procession, Star Walk and International Penang Bridge Run, which involved more than 10,000 members of the public. We too covered events like Horse Races in Penang Turf Club and Go-Cart Championships. These are events that have high possibilities of serious injuries.

Highway Emergency Ambulance Service
SJAM National Headquarters introduced this service in 1996. More than 60 ambulances and 1000 members were mobilised every year nationwide
to stationed at the highway toll plazas to provide primary care and transport casualties to hospital during festive seasons.
We actively participated in this service every year to help Malaysian Highways to be a safer place to travel. It is also a place for our members to gain experience and practise the skills they have learnt.

Emergency Ambulance Support Service (EASS)
EASS was a new service introduced by MCAD in 2003 when we discovered the shortage of ambulances especially during festive seasons and eves. Equipped ambulances with experienced personnel are stationed at headquarters to receive calls from 999 Emergency Call Centre, Penang Hospital, Royal Police, Fire & Rescue Department, Civil Defence Department and sometimes public.
We are looking forward to own our ambulance to allow us to extend this service to weekends basis, or even to 24hour emergency ambulance service in future.

Ambulance Attachment Unit (AAU)
SJAM Penang Headquarters introduced a new service in May 2002. SJAM members and ambulance stationed at the Jalan Perak Fire and Rescue Station during weekends, and to respond with the Fire and Rescue Engines to emergencies.
Our members take the advantage of exposing themselves to emergency response through their participation in Ambulance Attachment Unit. They also practise their knowledge and skills through the provision of Pre-hospital Care to victims. This is also a part of our effort to create the awareness among the public about the importance of rendering proper Pre-hospital Care.

Non-emergency Transport ServiceSJAM Penang Headquarters is providing Non-emergency Transport Service to transfer patients from hospital to hospital, hospital to home, and vice versa.
With only one paid driver, this service requires support from members. In year 2001, MCAD members volunteered more than 81% to this service. We have accompanied patients up to Perlis (Malaysia-Thailand Border), down to Johor (Malaysia-Singapore Border). We also took the advantage to practise our knowledge and skills on providing care and operating Basic Life Support Equipment.

Ambulance Service
Through kind sponsorship of ambulances by various organizations such as Public Bank Berhad, Sports Toto (M) Sdn. Bhd. and Resort World Bhd., St. John Ambulance is able to complement and support the 24 hours emergency ambulance services provided by our hospitals. St. John Ambulance of Malaysia is currently running its 24 Hour Emergency Ambulance Service in Penang Island (EMAS), Kuala Lumpur (EMAS) and Klang Valley (EAS). The se Ambulance Service is run based on the donations and fund from the public and private sectors.In additional to emergency ambulance services, St. John Ambulance also provides non-emergency ambulance services for the general public to bring their loved ones home anywhere in Malaysia and Singapore in all major cities in Malaysia. We are currently the largest serving NGO ambulance fleet in Malaysia with more than 60 fully equiped ambulances.

Majlis penyerahan kunci batal, mangsa tsunami kecewa
Oleh Mohd Sabri Said

TANJUNG BUNGAH, 28 Sept (Hrkh) - Impian mangsa tsunami untuk menduduki rumah baru Pangsapuri Masjid Terapung menjelang Aidil Fitri ini tidak menjadi kenyataan apabila majlis penyerahan kunci simbolik yang dijadual disempurnakan oleh Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak petang semalam dibatalkan atas arahan Umno Bahagian Bukit Bendera.
Menurut maklumat yang Harakahdaily terima ianya berpunca daripada pergelutan politik antara Ketua Bahagian Umno Bukit Bendera, Dato’ Ahmad Ismail dengan Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) Tanjung Bungah merangkap Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang, Tan Sri Dr. Koh Tsu Koon.
Akibat persengketaan dalaman Barisan Nasional (BN) mangsa tsunami pula yang menjadi mangsa sedangkan Kerajaan Persekutuan dan Kerajaan Negeri sudah pun selesai menangani masalah harga rumah sama ada RM42 ribu atau RM52 ribu sebagaimana yang dipinta oleh Syarikat Perumahan Negara Berhad (SPNB).
Hasil perbincangan kedua-dua pihak kerajaan menetapkan seunit RM42 ribu dan mangsa tsunami hanya perlu membayar RM14 ribu manakala selebihnya ditanggung oleh Kerajaan Negeri.
Ini bermakna setiap penghuni perlu membayar 50.00 sebulan dan wang penyelengaraan sebanyak RM30.00 lagi menjadikan kesemuanya RM80.00 sebulan.
Khemah termasuk kerusi dan meja yang siap di pasang dua hari lepas dipunggah semula tengah hari semalam oleh petugas yang mendapat kontrak memasang khemah berkenaan.
Isu pertelingkahan itu dikatakan telah lama berlarutan semenjak Dato’ Ahmad Ismail tidak lagi dipilih sebagai Senator dan menganggotai Ahli Majlis Perbandaran Pulau Pinang yang pernah disandangnya dua penggal berturut-turut kerana pernah diisytihar bangkrap.
Bukan itu sahaja malahan pengagihan projek yang tidak sekata juga menjadi punca kenapa Umno Bahagian begitu marah terhadap Parti Gerakan pimpinan Dr. Koh.
Yang DiPertua PAS Bukit Bendera merangkap Ketua Penerangan PAS Negeri, Haji Halim Salleh berkata, begitulah hakikat dalam komponen BN mereka asyik berlumba mencari pengaruh demi politik sempit dengan membelakangkan nasib rakyat yang seharusnya dibela.
“Kejadian itu memperlihatkan sikap BN sebenar. Mereka tidak tulus membantu rakyat sebaliknya sanggup bercakaran sehingga nasib rakyat yang ditimpa masalah diabaikan,” jelasnya.
Oleh itu, rakyat perlu sedar bahawa BN bukanya ‘gah’ tapi sebaliknya parti rapuh maka Barisan Alternatif (BA) yang dijangka merampas beberapa kerusi harus lebih berani bertindak cergas menangani masalah rakyat.
Isu terbaru yang berlaku di Parlimen Bukit Bendera ialah Umno memboikot pemberian sumbangan beras di surau-surau oleh Dr. Koh sebagai hadiah menyambut Syawal. - mns

PEACE Malaysia to send doctors to aid Yogjakarta QuakeKUALA LUMPUR, May 30, 2006: “PEACE Malaysia will be sending its medical team to Yogjakarta as its humanitarian aid to earthquake victims in Indonesia within the next 24 hours. They will be joining our Advance Team which arrived early Sunday morning,” says Dato’ Mukhriz Mahathir, Coordinator of Peace Malaysia in a Media Statement issued today. This medical relief team consists of 6 doctors, 3 senior female nurses and 1 senior medical assistant and will be carrying medication for surgery, anesthetics and other injectables. The medication assembled and the medical team comprising of a Disaster Medicine Specialist, a Surgeon and Pediatrician trained in MEDIVAC (Medical Evacuation) and CASIVAC (Casualty Evacuation), an Orthopedic Surgeon, Emergency Room doctors and a doctor from the Gynecology Department, is sent in response to the specific request made by the Indonesian Disaster Relief Team. They will also be bringing a Monitor with ECG as well as an X-ray Film Processor. Peace Malaysia’s medical relief team is supported by two trauma specialists in Yogjakarta, namely Dr Yuke Yudhawati and Prof Dr Aryono, who is the Chief Trauma Surgeon for the Indonesian Disaster Relief Team and President of the Surgeons Association of Indonesia. They will be setting up base camps at ‘Rumah Sakit Daerah Bantul’ and ‘Rumah Sakit Dr Sardjito’ in Yogjakarta and will be joining the field ambulance seeking out victims for treatment. Today, the Advance Team will be distributing food to Daerah Pleret, a district close to the epicenter of the recent 6.3 magnitude earthquake which has not received any assistance so far. “We believe that it is our responsibility to extend assistance to anyone who needs help. I am sure that Indonesia too will do the same for us in our time of need,” concludes Dato’ Mukhriz Mahathir, who is also a Malaysian UMNO Youth Exco Member and Chairman for the International and NGO Relations Bureau.

What Must We Do?

Natural or man-made disasters, poverty and other challenges are a fact of life for many people in various parts of the world today

Malaysians in general are very fortunate to be living in a country that is not only peaceful but is also developed in diverse fields.

Part of this is due to the fact that Malaysia is vulnerable to few earthly .

However, whilst enjoying the blessings of this prosperity, Malaysians need to also reach out and help others who may not be so fortunate, whether they be within or outside of Malaysia’s borders.

We as a part of the society.
What part must we take?

Latest help occured from Malaysia.

MERCY Malaysia Sends Team To Bihar, India, To Kick-Start Health Centre
Late last year, the state of Bihar in India suffered its worst flood in history, displacing a staggering 3 million people, destroying thousands of acres of land the people used to grow food. Amid sickness and poverty, those affected were struggling to survive.
MERCY Malaysia responded to their plight by providing basic health services through mobile and static clinics in the Madhepura District, which had some of the worst-hit areas.
As at January 2009, MERCY Malaysia doctors have treated 16,247 through its mobile clinics and another 9,815 at its static clinics