Facing pain and anguish

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PUTRAJAYA: In her five years of service as an assistant medical officer, Ashidah Abdul Rahman has never encountered as much heartache and mental anguish as she did since being placed on ambulance duty to pick up and send Covid-19 patients to the quarantine centre or hospital.

One particular sight that will remain etched in her memory is that of a couple, both aged 60, who had tested positive for Covid-19 and wished to be quarantined in the same place – the low-risk Covid-19 quarantine and treatment centre at the Malaysian Agro Exposition Park Serdang in Selangor.

“Who would have known that it was their last farewell and hug. Apparently, the woman died one day after she was admitted to the hospital’s emergency ward,” said the 29-year-old mother of three. Besides managing and treating the patients, the frontliners are also the ones who are beside an individual right from the time he or she tests positive for Covid-19 and has to be taken to either a low-risk quarantine centre or hospital.Heavy responsibility: Muhammad Syahril talking about his experiences as an ambulance driver. — Bernama

“There was this case of an 80-year-old woman who lived in one of the upper floors of a building and couldn’t walk.

 

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