This year my team is going low-key with a very minimal budget. There’s not even an opening speech, a gimmick or sharing sessions with patients. I personally felt that the patients were also not trying hard enough to improve their health conditions. I have yet to witness any cases of really good changes in their HbA1c level.

The celebration started with an aerobic session followed by activities at the booth area. The medical officers and diabetic educators were in charge of the registration and arranging the breakfast buffet for the team. We also had a few games at our stall with small trinkets as prizes. I bought syringe pens as registration tokens which I had prepared 2 weeks earlier.

The dietitian booth was a one-woman show. Madam Siah was demonstrating the diabetic diet meal sets which were so realistic.

The pharmacists had puzzles to solve and Uphamol was given as a token of participation.

The Occupational Therapists unit had a stereognostic box. Participants were told to put their hands inside the box and feel the objects. Whereas the Physiotherapist booth has a Physical Activity Pyramid. It’s interesting to see which daily activities that we do are considered as having low, medium or high intensity.

The programme did not incur much budget as we were parting knowledge more than anything. We did use money to print the banner which will be used for the next 2 years as the themes are the same. Part of the budget is for tokens and our meal for the day. I am hoping to do something different next year. We will see what my brain juices will think of in 2025.

Enjoy the pictures

Here is my team. Well, part of it. We forgot to take a photo together during the event. This was when we were clearing the area.