Bali Spirit Festival Committee Medical Team 2016

Bali Spirit Festival Committee Medical Team 2016

Bali Spirit Festival Committee Medical Team 2016

Ubud Health Care, the integrated healthcare provider in Ubud area, is proud to be selected as the Official Bali Spirit Festival Committee Medical Team. We provide Medical Care, Expertise, and Health Information at the Bali Spirit Festival to visitors and other communities in this region.

As an new medical provider in Ubud, we are honored to offer our medical expertise and service to more than one thousand visitors coming to Ubud and also for the local communities expected at this well-known international event. Our motto has been to treat every patient as we would want for our families and friends. We look forward to extend that commitment to all of the guests who will be present for the event.

As the official medical team, Ubud Health Care medical team will provide medical assistance to the attendees of the Bali Spirit Festival event. We are also the medical provider for almost all major events happening around Ubud, such as Ubud Writer Festival, Ubud Jazz Festival, Ubud World Music Festival, Ubud Food Festival, and many more events. Our medical team will be on site various locations at those events.

Ubud Health Care is dedicated to the health and well being of our patients, friends, and the community. It’s important for us to be trusted as the official Bali Spirit Festival committee medical team because we have many visitors coming to Bali Spirit Festival and we want to be there to take care of them. Ubud Health Care have a wealth of experience providing medical support for various events happening around Ubud. We’ll draw on all the background and experience to care for the public during the community event.

We would like to encourage people to take charge of their own health goals by participating in a series of interactive and educational activities that can be made as a part of their daily lives. (/Gin)

Rabies Vaccine in Ubud

Rabies Vaccine in Ubud

Rabies Vaccine in Ubud

Rabies is a potentially fatal disease. It is transmitted mainly from animals such as dogs, monkeys, cats or bats through their saliva (from a bite or scratch). There is no direct cure for Rabies, so the most effective way to deal with it is by preventive measures. Hence the best prevention is DO NOT GET BITTEN and/or SCRATCHED!! There are other important steps as well:

  • Keep your pets regularly vaccinated
  • Keep your pet dogs/cats/monkeys or (maybe) bats well checked up
  • Do not let dogs, cats and pet monkeys loose outside your house (animal contact may increase the animal-to-animal rabies transmission)
  • Read and learn about the symptoms of animals (dogs, cats, monkeys) having rabies
  • Do not play with stray dogs, cats or monkeys
  • If you visit Ubud’s monkey sanctuary/forest, do your best to act calm and steady at all times. Do not over feed or perform sudden movements that can scare or provoke the monkeys to bite or attack you
  • Do preventive rabies and tetanus vaccination as a general protective measure and minimize risk of rabies infection

I’ve got bitten or scratched by dogs/cats/monkeys or bats, what should I do?

  • Visit first aid booth/clinic/hospital whenever you got bitten or scratched (no matter how small the wounds)
  • If no clinic available nearby, do a quick preventive action, which is cleaning the wound in running water with soap for at least 15 minutes then applying some antiseptic or iodine and alcohol on the wound.
  • After cleaning the wound, find a clinic or hospital for review by a medical doctor and further treatment (including the need for specific medicine or rabies vaccine)
  • A doctor should do a detailed evaluation regarding the severity of the wound.

There are 4 main conditions that are related with a dog or monkey bite:

  1. Wound infection by bacteria (primary or secondary)
  2. Tetanus
  3. Rabies
  4. Other animal transmitted disease, i.e. Herpes B from monkey bite
Most of those condition can show early symptoms within hours or days, therefore early preventive measures should be taken depending on the severity of the wound. Remember, DO NOT wait until it’s too late, visit your trusted doctor As Soon As Possible.