Day 4: Yesterday, the son of Madam L called the hospital and asked me how's the mother's condition. I told him that she is not doing well. The next day when I went to work, I got to know that Madam L passed away already at 9pm the night before. It was quite a lonely death, whereby the family cannot go in and see her, be with her at her very last few hours in this world.
Oncall: We have one new patient, Madam T, 78 years old with underlying hypertension, dyslipidemia (high cholesterol) and diabetes mellitus. She contracted the COVID-19 infection from her husband. He was admitted to another COVID ward, his condition was more severe. Inside my ward, she refused all the oxygen support. She was very aggressive, she told us that she would rather die than getting the oxygen supplication. During my oncall, I went in to see the patient, she is already unconscious by that time. Managed to talk to her that, "Jesus is son of God, He died for your sin, He can save you. Trust him and you will be saved."
12 hours later, at around 6am, I was informed by the nurse that she passed away. I pronounced death to her family members over the phone and signed her death certificate. It is an indescribable feeling, people just left, one by one due to COVID-19. The day I was oncall, there was 11 deaths due to COVID in the hospital, and another 3 brought in dead, tested COVID positive too.
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