Hospitals in Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Hospitals

This is a list of hospitals in Brunei Darussalam :

Brunei Public Hospitals

• Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Saleha Hospital, or RIPAS Hospital

BRIEF ON R.I.P.A.S. HOSPITAL, BRUNEI DARUSSALAM The main referral hospital in the country is Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Saleha (R.I.P.A.S) Hospital, which is situated on a 42-acre site about 0.8 km from the heart of the capital, Bandar Seri Begawan. The hospital was officially opened on 28 August 1984 and is equipped with modern, cutting-edge medical technology. For Bruneian patients who require specialised treatment not provided in the country, they are sent abroad. In 2005, R.I.P.A.S. Hospital has:

Original number of bed is 523 which have been extended due to introduction of new services. 6 main blocks – Ward blocks, the Specialist Clinics block, the Plant & Engineering block, the Outpatients & State Lab block, Sports Complex and Transport Complex with jetty and helipad facilities.3498 employees

The Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Saleha Hospital (RIPAS) is the national hospital of Brunei. Designed by Alistair MacDonald and Partners (UK) it was officially opened on 28 August 1984.

It is located on a 42-acre (17 ha) site about 0.8 km from the heart of the capital, Bandar Seri Begawan.

The hospital has more than 600 beds and offers a wide range of services to the indigenous population. Healthcare in the public sector is free for Bruneians and foreign government workers.

Presently there is only one undergraduate medical school in Brunei but the government wishes to develop a formal medical training for students. The Institute of Medicine of the Universiti Brunei Darussalam was established on September 2000 and may in time grow into a full medical school. In the meantime the medical staff either have to come in from overseas, or locals have to travel abroad to receive a formal medical education.

As of 2007, the senior medical staff of RIPAS hospital are mostly trained from the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

The hospital also trains medical students from the University of Queensland, Australia.

Currently the hospital is not participating in any international healthcare accreditation scheme.

• Suri Seri Begawan Hospital (SSB)

The Suri Seri Begawan Hospital is Located in Kuala Belait, 107 km from the capital. With 183 beds, it is the second largest hospital in country and serves the people of Belait District. It was established in 1972 and is currently undergoing a multi million dollar programme of phased renovation which will give it facilities comparable to the best in the region.

Phase I of the project has been completed as has seen the commissioning of a modern Operation Theatre Suite and 16 private rooms. The new Out-patient and Casualty section has facilities including minor operation theatre for managing acute trauma patients as well as other emergencies requiring immediate resuscitation.

The Hospital also provides specialist services in: Internal medicine General surgery Pediatrics Obstetrics and gynaecology Ophthalmology Oral and maxillo-facial surgery Anaesthesia Dentistry Ear, nose and throat Dermatology Psychiatry Intensive care unit Special care baby unit Physiotherapy Occupational therapy; and Other support services Renal The clinical specialties are supported by a team of well qualified pharmacists. Investigative services include: A modern clinical laboratory Blood bank and Radiologist services These are facilities for: Non-invasive cardiac assessment; and Gastrointestinal endoscopy

• Pengiran Isteri Hajah Mariam (PIHM Hospital)

The Pengiran Isteri Hajjah Mariam Hospital in Bangar, Temburong District, opened in 1987. This 50-bed hospital is staffed with medical officers and dental officers who provide:

Medical

Pediatric

Obstetrics and gynecological; and

Dental services

• Pengiran Muda Mahkota Pengiran Muda Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah, Tutong Hospital (PMMPMHAMB Hospital)

The new hospital in Tutong Districts opened to the public in 1997. The hospital has 138 beds and is well equipped with high-technology medical equipment.
The comprehensive services comprise of:

A large outpatient department

Accident and emergency

Pediatrics

Obstetrics and gynecology

Physiotherapy

Psychiatry

General surgery

Dental

Pharmacy

Ear, nose and throat clinic

Eye clinic physiotherapy

Occupational therapy; and

Inpatient wards (medical, pediatric, surgical & maternity)

Other facilities provided include a surau, canteen, engineering workshop, kitchen, administration office and a conference room.

http://www.moh.gov.bn/ 

Brunei Private Hospitals

• Jerudong Park Medical Centre 
• Gleneagles JPMC Cardiac Centre

      

Jerudong Park Medical Centre (JPMC) is a private specialist hospital in Brunei Darussalam. Situated in the scenic Jerudong Park area, located along the shores of the South China Sea.  JPMC offers a spectrum of services catering to your family and organizational needs which includes general, specialized and surgical healthcare services.  These services are provided by our highly qualified and committed multi disciplinary medical team utilizing state-of-the-art technology.

At JPMC, we take pride in looking after your health and your well being.  We believe in providing quality healthcare services to all our patients.

Jerudong Park Medical Centre (JPMC) is the major Private Specialist Hospital in Brunei Darussalam.

The Centre is situated within the famous Jerudong Park area, and is located on the shores of the South China Sea with patient rooms facing an expanse of beautiful, private beaches.

The hospital offers comprehensive outpatient care as well as extensive inpatient services, and within the organisation is an excellent heart centre, Gleneagles JPMC Cardiac Centre, run jointly with Parkway Holdings of Singapore.

In 2002, the Brunei government was looking at establishing a cardiac center in Brunei, because of the increasing numbers of patients that were sent overseas to Kuala Lumpur or to Singapore for cardiac treatment.. At the same time, Gleneagles International was also looking to expand in the region. It partnered with the Brunei government for this project. 

The CEO is the hospital is Dr. Peter Tay. Hospital employs over 120 staff, over 60 per cent of whom are Bruneians.

Currently the standards of the hospital have not been verified, as it is not participating in any international healthcare accreditation scheme.

Jerudong Park BG 3122
Brunei Darussalam

Phone: +673 2 611433
Fax: +673 2 612461

Emergency: +673 2 612612 / +673 7 172172

Email: feedback@jpmc.com.bn

http://www.jpmc.com.bn/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hospitals_in_Brunei

Brunei Holidays : Trip to Brunei Darussalam Water Village

 

Brunei Holidays, Trip to Kampong Air in Bandar Seri Begawan, one of  famous tourist attractions in Brunei. We hired a water taxi to bring us around the water village. We started our visit at 10 am, ohh thanked God that day the weather was fine and cloudy. This was fun, my kids was excited and I knew this activity is seldom to occur to them. People like us who stay on land will eager to come over and want to feel the life at water village.

Water Taxis in Kampong Ayer Brunei Darussalam

 on the Boat to Kampong Ayer Brunei

passed Kg Bendahara Lama and we could see a our late father's graveyard 

at 'Tanah perkuburan Limbungan' from distance

 Water pipes for Kampong Ayer water village's people

 

Beautiful....Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque

view from Kampong Ayer

 

 View of Sultan Palace - Nurul Iman Palace

Garbage from Kampong Ayer

was transported by boat to the garbage area

Living in Kampong Ayer

Kampong Ayer Fuel station for boats

The legend rock is said to be the ship of Nakhoda Ragam 

that was being cursed by his mother

Small land called Lumut Lunting

 Can u see the hanging plastic bags? Inside are the placenta of the babies.
There are people still believe in traditional belief.
I don't actually know what it's purpose hanging that things.

 This is to the way towards Kampung Menunggul

 These are modern houses scheme at Kampung Bolkiah

 Towards Kampung Bolkiah

  

One of the primary school at Kampong Ayer

Traditional gallery Building for tourists visiting 

the Kampong Ayer water village

 

Seat to view a water village documentary

 Some of the ancient things and traditional handicrafts 

are displayed in this galary

source :

http://lizakbar71.blogspot.com/2010/03/trip-to-water-village.html

Islam in Brunei Darussalam

 Go To Mosque in Brunei

About brief History Islam in Brunei Darussalam, It has been debated when Islam actually first arrived in Brunei Darussalam. A number of relics showed that Islam could actually be practised in Brunei Darussalam by the 12th century.
Amongst these were tombstones found in the various Islamic graveyards in Brunei particularly the one at Rangas which showed one with a Chinese Muslim by the name of Pu Kung Chih-mu. He was buried there in 1264. This is more than a hundred years earlier before the conversion of Awang Alak Betatas as the Islamic Sultan Muhammad Shah, the first Sultan of Brunei.
Pu is the common surname which according to Chinese

historians identified them as someone who is a Muslim. The tombstone also identified Pu Kung Chih-mu as one who had originated from Chuan-chou City in China. During the Sung Dynasty, Arab and Persian Traders flocked to the Kwang Chow (Canton) in Kwangtung Province and Chuan-chou in Fukien Province.
It was not the only Chinese Muslim grave there. In another grave nearby belonged to another Chinese Muslim by the name of Li Chia-tzu from Yung Chun (Fukian) who died in 1876. Yung Chun is also another city in China where Muslim travellers frequently trade.

According to Chinese records, stated in the “Notes on the Malay Archipelago and Malacca Compiled From Chinese Sources” written by WP Groeneveldt in 1880, one Chinese Islamic trader arrived in Brunei in the 10th century. His name was P’u-lu-shieh. He was both a trader and a diplomat. SQ Fatimi writing in the Sociological Research Institute in Singapore in 1963 under an article entitled “Islam Comes to Malaysia”, P’u-lu-shieh name is akin to Abu al-Layth.

The Brunei King at that time was named Hiang-ta. The arrival of the diplomat-trader from China was greeted with great ceremony. If this is so, Islam has actually arrived in Brunei in the year of 977.

One may discount the fact that the Muslim diplomat-trader did not do anything in Brunei but merely brought greetings and therefore one should not read too much into this. However the interesting thing was that the Brunei King’s delegation to China to return the Emperor’s greetings was headed by another Muslim by the name of P’u A-li (Abu Ali).

Based on this fact alone, Abu Ali must have held an important position in the Brunei Government if he was tasked to be Brunei’s Ambassador in those days and even if the King of Brunei then was not himself a Muslim, some members of his royal court were Muslims.

A number of European historians claimed that Brunei was still not a Muslim nation until the 15th century. However, the Ming Shih, Book 325, a Chinese reference book noted that the King of Brunei in 1370 was Ma-ho-mo-sa. Some say that this should be read as Mahmud Shah. But local Brunei historians take this to refer to “Muhammad Shah” the first Islamic Sultan of Brunei.

Robert Nicholl, a former Brunei Museum Curator argued in another paper entitled “Notes on Some Controversial Issues in Brunei History” in 1980 that the name Ma-ho-mo-sa could be pronounced as Maha Moksha which means Great Eternity. Maha Mokhsa would make it a Buddhist name. Nicholl goes on to argue that even the Brunei Sultan who died in Nanjing in 1408 was not a Muslim. Another European Historian, Pelliot, Ma-na-jo-kia-nai-nai was reconstituted as Majarajah Gyana (nai). But the closest title would have been Maharaja Karna. However Brunei historians have stated that the King was Sultan Abdul Majid Hassan who would have been the second Sultan of Brunei.

Nicholl further argued that Sultan Muhammad Shah converted to Islam as late as the 16th century and not during the 14th century as is widely known. However according to Brunei historians, Sultan Muhammad Shah converted to Islam in 1376 and that he ruled until 1402. After which time, it was Sultan Abdul Majid Hassan, who died in China who ascended the throne. That was when Sultan Ahmad reigned in Brunei beginning 1406.

Most likely there were two waves of Islamic teachings that came to Brunei. The first was brought by traders from Arabia, Persia, India and China. The second wave was brought about by the conversion of Sultan Muhammad Shah. With the coming of the second wave, Brunei’s Islamisation hastened.

!The propogation of Islam in Brunei was led by a Syarif with the name of Syarif Ali who was a descendant from Rasulullah S.A.W. through his grandsons Sayydinia Hassan or Sayydinia Hussin.

Syarif Ali arrived from Taif. Not long after he arrived in Brunei, he was married to a daughter of Sultan Ahmad. Syarif Ali built a mosque in Brunei. Syarif Ali was closely connected to a few other well known Islam propogationist in the region such as Malik Ibrahim who went to Java, Syarif Zainal Abidin in Malacca, Syarif Abu Bakar or Syariful Hashim in Sulu and Syarif Kebungsuan in Mindanoa.

Syarif Ali ascended the throne as the third Sultan of Brunei when he took over from his father-in-law. Because of his piousness, he was known as Sultan Berkat (Berkat means ‘blessed’).

The mosque especially the pulpit was used by Sultan Syarif Ali himself. Sultan Syarif Ali himself conducted the sermons during Friday prayers. So he was not only the Sultan but he was also the Imam and brought the religion directly to the Brunei people.

According to Thomas Stamford Raffles in his book “The History of Java”, the Islamic activities of Sultan Syarif Ali was not limited to Brunei. He was also known to have gone over to Java to propagate Islam where he was known as Raja Chermin. He tried hard to convert the Majapahit King named Prabu Angka Wijaya.

The efforts of the Brunei Sultans in spreading Islam helped to spread Islam not only in Borneo but also as far north as to the southern Philippines islands. When Malacca fell to the Portuguese in 1511, it was Brunei which played a major role in the spread of Islam in the region.

By the 16th century, Brunei had built one of her biggest mosques. In 1578, Alonso Beltran, a Spanish traveller described it as one of five storeys tall built on the water. Most likely it had five layers of roofs to represent the five pillars of Islam.

Islam was firmly rooted in Brunei by the 16th century. This mosque was unfortunately destroyed by the Spanish in June that same year.

By the time of Sultan Hassan, Brunei’s ninth Sultan, Brunei had the Islamic laws incorporated into the Brunei canons. Pengiran Dato Dr Hj Mohammad writing a Malay article entitled “Kemasukan Islam ke Brunei Darussalam dan Undang-Undangnya” (Arrival of Islam in Brunei Darussalam and the Laws) noted that out of the 47 chapters of the Brunei canons, 27 of those chapters had Islamic elements.

Islam lived on in Brunei till today and with the Constitution in 1959, Islam became Brunei’s Offical Religion.

The writer runs a website on Brunei at bruneiresources.com.

By Rozan Yunos | Mar 8th, 2010

source :

http://news.brunei.fm/2010/03/08/the-golden-history-of-islam-in-brunei/

Star Holiday Lodge Hotel in Brunei Darussalam

Star Lodge formerly Holiday Lodge

Lot 27192, Kampung Jerudong, Jalan Pulau Kubu, P.O.Box 555, Sengkurong Negara, 

BG 1128 Kampong Jerudong

Boasting spacious accommodation, 4-star Star Lodge also provides an outdoor pool, a spa and a tour desk. It offers Wi-Fi and a shuttle service to the city centre free of charge.

The Star Lodge Hotel’s shuttle service covers Jerudong Park Playground, located a 5-minute walk away. Brunei International Airport is a 25-minute drive from the hotel.

Rooms are luxurious and feature ample seating space for guests’ comfort. They are fitted with a minibar, coffee and tea making facilities, and a writing desk. Select rooms have a well-equipped kitchenette.

Guests can make the most of the tropical climate, using the sun loungers located by the pool. There is a smaller pool for younger guests. Other relaxation options include massages and body treatments at the spa.

The All Stars Sports Café serves local specialities and Western dishes. Meals can be enjoyed in the privacy of guests’ rooms.

The Bandar Seri Begawan Holiday Lodge Brunei hotel is well known for its hospitality and high customer satisfaction which shows in the dedicated hotel staff that is always eager to help and welcomes every question that you might have. You can expect numerous facilities such as a 24-hour available reception desk and room service.

As the only hotel in Brunei with a resort concept, The Holiday Lodge is in a class of its own. Located in exclusive Jerudong Park, near the coastline of the South China Sea and roughly equidistant from Brunei’s modern airport and its capital, Bandar Seri Begawan, The Holiday Lodge offers a relaxed environment and proximity to Brunei’s star attraction: Jerudong Park Playground.

Brunei Darussalam is the ideal getaway to the exotic and unique attractions of the island of Borneo. Start your adventure in the heart of Brunei Darussalam at The Holiday Lodge Hotel. The Holiday Lodge Hotel is proud of its independence from any world chain, meaning we can offer our guests personal attention in unique surroundings. Your experience begins in our cool, spacious lobby where our friendly staff is waiting to greet you in arrival and welcome you to our tropical home.

Well-known for warm and friendly service, located near Jerudong Park, on the coastline of the South China Sea, and roughly equidistant from Brunei International Airport and Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam's Capital, The Holiday Lodge Hotel offers a relaxing environment and proximity to the country's attraction: Jerudong Park Playground. Jerudong Park Playground is a mere 5 minutes' walk or a complimentary shuttle from The Holiday Lodge Hotel. The Holiday Lodge Hotel, in restful tones of terra cotta and cream with deep green trim, features a two-storey foyer where guests are greeted with traditional hospitality.

http://www.booking.com/hotel/bn/the-holiday-lodge.html

http://www.fnetravel.com/english/bruneihotels/holiday-lodge.html

Mangrove Paradise Resort in Brunei

Yesterday went to check in the Mangrove Paradise Resort together with my friends. This resort just open last two months. very nice place to visit and stay too! $128.00 per night plus breakfast buffet style. Is suitable for a small family friends and couple to stay there a night! If for scandals scandalous are much more better lagi! This resort include swimming pools and Spa too! You can bring your fishing gear there to fishing in front your room. Not bad la the place really can go for a try and have a experience of A Day Life Kampong Air!!!!

But one thing are too bad is their restaurant are close at 9.30pm one....... so make sure you better standby tapau some food if you plan to stay late night over there! otherwise you have to drive back all the way to bandar or gadong for tapao supper liao!

The most funny thing is in the mid-night there is NO WATER SUPPLY there! But after we call the reception for couples of time( No one answer the call for 5 minutes) to complaint why no water supply..... then the funny things happen!!!! 3 security came over to our huts a told us the water are back in action....... THEN!!!!! they ask us is there any BEERS for them too!!!!

Mahai!!!! I suspect they are the one who shut down the water pump, so they know we are going to call reception for asking water supply...... Then they have the chance to serving us then ask for TIPS!!!!!

So guys!!!!! if next time you want to check in there please don't let them see you having alcohol there, otherwise there is no water supply for you tu!!!!!

http://www.tigerlim.com/2009/12/brunei-mangrove-paradise-resort.html

The Prosperous Of Brunei Darussalam

Night In Brunei

I first heard the name of (state) is called Brunei as a child, from TVRI (Televisi Republik Indonesia)-rather than the weather report of Indonesia and the surrounding area. usually referred to there, "Bandar Seri Begawan sunny, or cloudy, or ..."yes, the capital of Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei Darussalam. a small country town of the beautiful, which only a few times before (10-14 des 2009) I visiting and I want to share about Brunei Darussalam. I mean beautiful, perhaps more to the well-organized city / country in good governance, which at least a glimpse of just a few days it looks very striking in landscapes: roads and localization of residential and office buildings, shopping centers, also in the discipline of its citizens to the rule of driving on the highway, and others. I think, rightly "Darussalam" pinned to him, reflecting the well-being and prosperity.

 

Rainbow in Brunei

The first impression that comes is a wide street at once deserted. deserted because of the time I came, was a Friday night means the night holiday in Brunei, and from what I heard, Friday and Sunday is a holiday, the country will be quiet on a holiday for many of its citizens vacation in Malaysia, the country nearest neighbor .night was an exhausting night with the rain swept streets rinai. Our trip, I went with a friend in order to meeting the archipelago of letters to-15-day long, since from banjarmasin, jakarta, kuching, miri, to the Brunei border at approximately 10 o'clock before the lid border is a journey that finally made me fall asleep briefly, after wondering (small talk) a bit on the pickup of the committee in Brunei, in the back of pickup.We stopped briefly at a stall eat / drink a kind of cafe that I forgot his name, on the outskirts of town to the hotel before we lodged: Abdur Razak hotel apartments. we were treated to tea pull of some committee, which warms the atmosphere quite cold that night.The first day, our Friday prayers in mosques jamee Asr Hassanal Bolkiah magnificent; with towering minarets, a dome of pure gold plated, the mihrab were so; the room in such coolness, which wudhunya where I should sit down first before the water comes out (for wearing the sensor system of the body, more or less so), and in the vast courtyard in a beautiful garden I was fascinated in such a way: Subhan Allah, this is the most beautiful mosque I've seen so far!there is an interesting story about the Friday sermon that brought the preacher. it is said, the sermon which was read to us on that day in the mosque, is also another sermon at a mosque preacher read the other on the same day. he said, that the kingdom set up what should and should not be spoken to the audience so as not to cause differences in viewing Darussalam. but, of course I can not prove it, because it is not possible for me to listen to sermons at mosques as well as two at the same time.I could imagine the leadership of Suharto in the very country I love when friends are listening to the story. but of course I must not give judgment in terms of how the king to instill values ​​in society. as far as my view, Darussalam (country / place of peace) is the grand necessity in a small country that is organized and well organized.from the mosque we had lunch at a restaurant in the building neat shops (I can not remember the names of streets and Tempatan here, every building has a name that some of them seemed named for the owner) on the edge of the beautiful river winding. There are two things that I observe here, first I must eat what is available in a buffet and not have to count, because the calculation is perkepala / person and not a per-item side dishes that I took. second, after I get out and hang out for a moment by the river in a building open to the careless (or similar), while waiting for friends to spend their food, the more I realize that in Brunei there is no building (houses and the like) in the coastal rivers as in banjarmasin; coastal rivers, the trees are left lush with whatever it's name and type.I was also invited to see the kampong Ayer Brunei, which she says is the forerunner of the first residence of Brunei. pole buildings with solid-wood legs in the middle of the river, like an island of timber buildings interwoven with each other. Ayer village people simply put the train (car) they are on land, the compound in such a way as to suggest a place to sell cars on the coast, and then go home to use wood-bodied boat to their island. a lovely settlement of the land!evening, the opening event on the board of songket, international rizqun magnificent hotel, by the sultan's son, a very noble young pengiran series abd your majesty. Hajj Malik Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Ibni mu'izzaddin waddaulah. and I think this is what makes this so Darussalam organized and well-being, obedience to the sultan and a tremendous tribute to his family, which in such a way as is seen in how they treat the sultan's son on the show. he, who was very young-about my age, came greeted shalawat, was hailed in such a way, kissed her hand and lifted up, even by older people though of it. This event was so solemn and full of grandeur.walakhir, there is no gap that I can see and declare about the ugliness of this country. This is Brunei Darussalam, a small country the beautiful, the streets, the buildings, the people-the way they were disciplined in such a manner without visible supervision by police and a parking in the drive and put the car, also the discipline of his time in such a disordered and prosper. I do not know the city ....home from Brunei, through and miri kl (only in the airport only), then to Jakarta, and ending in the beloved city, in the sense of fatigue there was only a dream: a city so orderly, somehow in motion ....

source :
http://hajriansyah.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/dari-brunei-yang-sejahtera/

Bukit Patoi in Temburong

For our Monday morning walk this week we went for a special excursion to Bukit Patoi in Temburong. For our non-Bruneian readers, Temburong (a district separated by an area of Malaysia) is Brunei Darussalam's least populated district and the biggest draw is the vast amount of untouched jungle which covers most of Temburong. Getting there is a 45 minute boat ride from BSB (Bandar Seri Begawan) or a 2 hour car journey via the Malaysian town of Limbang. 

Animal in Bukit Patoi

Bukit Patoi is 1200m and though the view from the top is lovely the actual walk is a treasure trove of jungle life from plants and creepers to birds and insects. Some of us in the group were very lucky that day to spot a hornbill and two chameleons - with one guarding a nest of eggs.

Animal in Bukit Patoi

 http://brunei-irish.blogspot.com/2009/11/bukit-patoi.html