THE MISSION
"Endeavor to provide recreational reading materials to patients for their recreation, education, mind development and therapy."
OBJECTIVES
- helping patients to reduce the boredom and fatigue of hospitalization.
- promote reading habits among patients.
- instill social responsibility and caring culture among youth and communities.
- contribute towards the building of civil society and a reading society.
VOLUNTEERS
& SERVICES
The
Patients' Library Committee is responsible for the building-up
of the collection and recruiting volunteers to render the services. There
are two categories of patients' library volunteers.They are the "Rakan Kesihatan"
(secondary school pupils) and "Sahabat Kesihatan" (adults).
They serve both the Patients' Library and the Mobile Service. Currently,
the Patients' Library provides service to 25 wards at the main building,
while the Mobile Library caters for all Orthopaedics ward 1, 2, 4, 5,
6, 7 and Haematology ward 19.
COLLECTION
The
Library houses a collection of more than 6 000 reading materials in the
form of books (fiction and non-fiction), popular magazines, newsletters,
health brochures, etc. The collection is completely obtained from donations
made by individuals and organisations.
- DONATIONS
The Patients' Library received donations of books and magazines from Dr Lim Kuan Joo, Dato' Dr Hj. Ahmad Tajuddin Jaafar (the former directors) HKL staff and patients, National Library of Malaysia, French Embassy, Yayasan Salam Malaysia, Karangkraf Sdn Bhd, Pustaka Wira, Utusan Melayu Sdn Bhd, Kelab Wanita Fakulti UKM, NCWO, PKPIM, Rotary Club Kampong Baharu and individuals from all walks of life. The French Embassy for the second time has donated books including audiocassette to the library on Oct. 13, 1999. In December 1999 donations came from ABIM.- The library also received in kind such as book trollies, money (for volunteers' overall), posters, plaque, carpet and painting for renovation work. The committee are thankful to Datin Saadiah Ahmad, PUSPANITA of the Ministry of Health, Datin Dr Suraiya Tun Hussein, Radicare (M) Sdn. Bhd HKL Branch and Sharikat Bina Terbit for those contributions.
- We are especially proud and immensely grateful to those caring people for their donations and hope to receive continuous support from them. We also hope that there will be more caring society coming forward to help us in this project.
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Are you one of those caring lot, who would like to donate reading materials or are interested in joining us as patient library volunteers?
- Call us at Tel.:
03 - 26155555 ext. 5599
(Pn. Che Intan Ahmad)Snail Mail:
Patient Library,
Hospital Kuala Lumpur
Bahagian Cytology Division (Histopathology)
Pathology Department
First FloorMain Block,
Jalan Pahang
50586 Kuala Lumpur