History of

St John Ambulance of Malaysia

Division of Sultan Ismail Secondary School

Johore Bahru

    This year, St. John Ambulance of Malaysia ,Division of Sultan Ismail Secondary School(SJAMSSI) reached its 36th year anniversary. In 1961, it was established successfully and named First Aid Team. At the beginning of its establishment, the team was led by Mr Lim( A Sports Teacher). Well, it faced many problems such as insufficient site for meeting usage.

At that time, there were two types of practice provided, one was first aid knowledge and the other was first aid technique. Lectures as well as notes were given by the St John officer to all members and the syllabus was based on the book ‘First Aid’ .

At late 1980s, the activities of our division were varied. For instance, camping was initially held in 1982 and it is still an important activity until today. Since 1985, several trips have been made to enable all the members to visit some places of interest. Besides that, Intersquad Competition and Farewell Ceremony were also regarded as compulsory events of a year. The aim of doing this was to achieve our objectives such as to improve knowledge among members.

Weekly meeting was held every Saturday, 8.30 to 11.00a.m. While meeting, members were given useful lectures about first aid, marching training, stretcher drill training or home nursing training. At that time, there were approximately 150 members and this figure rose till 342 members in 5 years time.

The time of meeting had been lengthen until 12.00p.m. In 1995, it was then fixed to hold from 8a.m. until 12.00p.m. after considering some problems occurred. New Year Gathering and Telematch were added to our annual routine to vary the activities.

As our division continues obtaining aids from school authority, communities, members and other authorities concerned, it is still slowly progressing until a higher level which can admittedly proud of.