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HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAMME AT HOSPITAL
• Patient Education Session
Throughout the year 2017, a total of 40,742 patients and their family members attended the patient
education classes related to Diabetes, Hypertension, Asthma and Renal through 22,753 sessions of
patient education class, as shown in Table 42:

Table 42
Numbers of Patient Education Activities And Patient/Family Attendance
According to Patient Education Modules of 2017

No Module Total of Activities Total of Attendance
1. Diabetes 14,884 26,721
2. Hipertension 4,586 8,068
3. Asthma 1,915 2,787
4. Renal 1,368 3,168
Total 22,753 40,744

Source: Community Mobilisation Section, Health Education Division, MoH

• Quit Smoking Clinic
In 2017, there were 39 Quit Smoking Clinics established at the government hospitals led by Health
Education Officers. Through the clinic, 1,546 clients received consultation regarding smoking cessation.
Out of the total, 658 clients (42.6 percent) have successfully quitted smoking for at least within 6 months
period (Table 43).

Table 43
Achievement of Quit Smoking Clinic for 2017

Number of clients Number of clients successfully Percentage of clients
set the date to quit smoking quit smoking successfully quit smoking

1,546 658 42.6

Source: Community Mobilisation Section, Health Education Division, MoH

HEALTH MEDIA
• MyHEALTH Portal
The target for visitors hits to MyHEALTH Portal in 2017 is 2 million hits. Nevertheless, the achievement
of visitors hits to the MyHEALTH Portal for the whole of 2017 has surpassed the target with 9,629,766
hits (Figure 58). The MyHealth Portal also receives recognition from HONCode, an international
organisation that provides ratings to websites that provide health information.

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