Saturday 03 February 2018
CNY Health Checks
We kicked off the year with our first health-check to celebrate Chinese New Year. With thousands of visitors at the event, our volunteers were kept busy. It was a great opportunity for our non-Chinese YACMA volunteers to pick up some essential phrases for communicating with Chinese patients. At the same time, our Chinese volunteers brushed up on their clinical terminology. One elderly woman tried to explain to us that she had a history of some sort of heart condition. After 10 minutes, we still could not figure out what she was saying except for the word “shaky” (颤动). In the end, our doctors pitched in and we discovered that it was atrial fibrillation all along. (心房颤动)
Saturday 10 February 2018
WTV Chinese New Year Health Check
2018 marks the first year ACMA has bought its free health checks to the Vodafone Events Centre for the WTV Chinese New Year festival. We were busy with health checks an hour before the supposed start time. The event itself was busy and bustling despite the drizzle with the variety of cultural stall and food drawing quite the crowd on the rainy Saturday night
Saturday 03 March 2018
Botany Town Centre Health Check
ACMA once again attended the annual botany community day alongside on a beautiful March summer day. Out team stuck through the blistering hot weather, made significantly easier by the food and live music
Saturday 13 October 2018
Community Health Talk
ACMA’s annual Community Health Talk was held at Panmure Community Hall. The interactive discussion allowed members of the Chinese community to hear about topics that were relevant to them from a range of specialists. There was also the opportunity to get involved with the free health check over afternoon tea. We received some great feedback from the attendees who enjoyed both the talks and health check. A huge thank you goes out to our wonderful speakers: Dr. David Wu, Dr. Gary Wu, Dr. Cindy Ooi, Dr. Andrew To, Dr. Donny Wong, Dr. Judy Huang and Dr. Daniel Lin. Also thanks to the YACMA students who assisted with the running of the event and the health check. We hope you all found the event as successful as we did.