PETALING JAYA: Unreasonable Malaysians are making life difficult for medical frontliners who are already working around the clock to curb the Covid-19 outbreak.
Refusing to be quarantined, demanding unnecessary screenings, lying about their travel history, and concealing the fact that they have had contact with a positive patient – these are just some of the issues medical personnel are facing.
“They refused to be quarantined because they have other things to do, while some are scared of the backlash they might get because they traveled overseas, ” she said.“The test is not cheap, so we will only do it for certain cases. But some lied to us telling us that they lived with someone who went to the tabligh event and has symptoms!To make things worse, she said many Malaysians who were instructed to self-quarantine failed to do so.
“Some countries monitor their patients using mobile apps, but we don't have that, so the virus continues to spread across the whole country like wildfire, ” she said. “That is our downfall. I still can’t believe we hosted a gathering for 14,000 people! Thanks to that, we are a major disease exporter, ” he said.A doctor based in the south of Peninsula Malaysia, who only wished to be known as Dr Yasmin, said some health facilities had no choice but to freeze staff leave and extend working hours.
Like the other doctors, Dr Yasmin and her colleagues have also faced uncooperative patients, some of whom have put medical personnel at risk. Despite feeling compelled to serve the country, Dr Yasmin fears frontliners might not be able to bear the burden much longer.
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