SUBANG Jaya Medical Centre (SJMC) took its "Tis the Season to Be Healthy" Mobile Clinic to 18 locations around the Klang Valley in a month-long roadshow to provide free health checks and spread awareness on the importance of caring for one's well-being.
More than 780 adults and children received free health checks including glucose, cholesterol and vision tests as well as kids' growth measurement and low-back flexibility tests.
The hospital also paid a visit to Fugee School, where the mobile clinic provided more health checks for close to 200 children, while SJMC staff handed out goodie bags with the help of the SJMC mascot, "Teddy Paws".
SJMC chief executive officer, Trish Hogan says the mobile clinic initiative is part of the Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care Group's responsibility as medical professionals to help alleviate health concerns, including among the lower-income and disadvantaged communities.
Fugee School is the educational arm under Fugee, a non-profit organisation which provides education to refugee children in Malaysia.
Prior to the visit, the hospital, under its Grant A Child A Gift Programme, had invited 10 children from Fugee School to a luncheon at its premises where the kids were entertained by SJMC's mascot, Teddy Paws and Santarina.
SJMC's mobile clinic and Teddy Paws also brought more festive cheer to three orphanages in the Klang Valley namely, Trinity Children Centre, Rumah Hope and Rumah Kids in collaboration with Jaya Grocer where essential items including dry food, toiletries and hand sanitisers were handed out to a total of 105 children.
