Organic fertilizer business

The beauty of mobile occupational health is traveling to different industries, even beautiful farms. Neutrog, a farm outside Philadelphia, produce organic fertilizer. Medical examinations is conducted on the factory farm workers annualy.

The Value of a Height Medical

Balance reflex test: left side, normal function.

Unable to lift left leg, due to hip injury, causing him to lose his balance.

This disability is a serious safety hazard for a person working on heights, such as scaffolding.

If a height medical was not conducted on this worker, serious accidents could have happened, but since he has been declared restricted from working on heights, this has been avoided.

Clubbed Fingers

This is a great example of clubbed fingers. It is often associated with chronic pulmonary illness, cyonitic heart disease, sub-acute bacterial endocarditis or ulcerative colitis.

This patient was a 50-year old female presenting with TB-symptoms, a chest X-ray was done, showing infiltration of the upper lobes. The radiologist suggested TB. The patient was referred to the clinic where the TB doctor re-X-rayed her chest, and found it not to be a case of TB. Sputum tested negative and the patient was referred to medical out-patients at tertiary hospital.

At present she is still presenting with TB-symptoms and was exposed to an infected patient. She is a long time smoker, also suggesting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as a possibility.

This condition was detected during occupational health medical surveillance (baseline medical examination). It is important to know the reason for her condition, to prevent a deterioration in her condition due to possible exposure at her workplace, or in case of a bacterial tuberculosis, spreading to other workers.

Machine Operators tested

On Saturday we had to do some medicals at our resident site, Wilson's Transport, De Beer Street, Sacks Circle, Bellville South, for a client whose machine operators are spread out over the Cape Peninsula and not able to be at one site during the workweek. In such instances we have the client bring the patients to our resident site for tests:

Snellen test...

One of the clerks confirming some information on the patient's medical history.

BMI's were calculated...

Blood-pressures are monitored...

Audiometry testing taking place.

Spirometry (lung function test) is an essential part of medical surveillance. Tests are captured with specialized software and equipment, directly to laptop for quick reference and archiving.

Chest examination for abnormalties in the heart and lungs.

Special vision screening is required by the Road and Traffic regulations for operators

Well-controlled blood sugar levels are essential for fitness to work and should be monitored.

Despite the cold weather, we had lots of fun, practicing our Xhosa, and ensuring a healthy workforce!

Contact Sr. Nel at nellie@ohscare.co.za  for further information on medicals.

Some of the first images of a recent job

Explaining the lung-function test to the patient...

The patient completing the test...

Patient about to start audiometry testing...

Soundproof booth for testing

All we need is 220V power.

The Indusmed mobile unit, containing all the facilities to do lung-function tests, audiometry tests, general medical tests and vision screenings.

Contact Sr. Nel at nellie@danienel.co.za to book your medicals!

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