Today visiting naval medical personnel were running a free contraception service. Around 100 ladies turned up to the clinic. The women were registered and then three doctors were seeing them to assess them for their chosen contraception. As part of the assessment the doctors were taking the women’s blood pressure. I offered to do this prior to the women seeing the doctors to speed up the process
for them. Once I had made myself understood I was set up with an assessment station in the waiting room and took over 70 blood pressures during the morning. It was impossible to maintain confidentiality with women reading over my shoulder and calling out the numbers as I wrote them. Later on once all the women had been registered one of the medical records staff came to help me by writing down the blood pressures, which meant I had to say the numbers to him – this meant not only did I have to remember the blood pressure but convert it to Bahasa Indonesian and then check what he had written down in case I had done the translation wrong. During the afternoon and evening twelve women had sterilisations performed by the team and many more had contraceptive implants or inter uterine devises fitted by our midwives.
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