Saturday, March 21, 2020

21-03-2020 COVID-19

It has been a week since I moved out. Get to know that the coronavirus has finally come to Sibu last Saturday, so I decided to move out from my home. At home, I have an elderly grandma. Working in hospital itself is high risk to have a close contact with Covid, especially when I am seeing those walk-in patients in labour room and outpatients for gyne patients. So I made a very difficult decision, which is to move out.

15/3/2020: Everday, I am still seeing one Malaysian couple who went to Japan with their relatives from Singapore. Accidentally saw someone commented in their facebook, they need to be quarantined when they are back from Japan. One of them replied, it is a good time to do daily devotion and read bible. Personally, I don't agree with anyone who is still flying to anywhere, around the world. This is not the time. Faith? This is how you use your faith in God? Faith is the trust in God in whatever circumstances we are facing, not when you purposely walk into a fire without any reason. I am not a saint and I wouldn't want to comment much on this. In the event of COVID-19, we can see people's selfishness and ignorance.  It is not about you not fearing of deaths, it is the matter of your selfishness, ignorance, you don't care if you might be one who bring back the Covid to us.

Grateful enough, I found an owner who agreed to rent her unit to us. Make the payment for 1 month rental fees and deposit on the day. Moved in to the house that night.

I am grateful again, staying with my close friend and her 2 sisters.

16/3/2020: Oncall, one of my houseman had a panic attack. She just clocked in for work, and suddenly she was hyperventilating and having muscle spasm. After making sure that she has no risk for Covid 19, we sent her over to ETD. After settled, I asked her to go back and rest at home. It did create a small chaotic moment in the labour room. With this active Covid 19 atmosphere, everyone were scared but remained calm. Terminal cleaning done. Grateful enough, everything went well for that night.

For the rest of the weeks, nothing much. 2 of my colleagues joined the Covid 19 team and hence there's some changes in the oncall roster. Supposedly I finished all my oncalls during the first 2 weeks of March, but I need to replace my colleague's oncall. It's ok, because either way, I will be either working or going back home, alone.

Just hope that public will have more awareness and honest. I still have friend who called me up yesterday asking if it is true that we have positive case in Sibu Hospital. They thought that the news is a fake one. Oh my dear...

All of us still can see in the news, regarding patients still hiding their history of joining the massive gathering in KL. In the end, they spread the virus around and even worst, they infected the medical personnel. Again, this is how selfish a person can be.

This is a tough war.