Friday, 14 May 2021 05:54 AM MYTOne thing all the frontliners agreed on was that vaccination was the only sure way to defeat the pandemic. ― Picture by Ahmad ZamzahuriKUALA LUMPUR, May 14 — Malaysia’s health workers battling the Covid-19 pandemic are struggling to remain hopeful amid a renewed wave of infections, after already more than a year with the coronavirus.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah admitted yesterday that the frontliners were mentally and physically exhausted, and sought to rally them on in the fight against Covid-19 that is set to worsen with the rise of new variants of concern .many of the frontliners have been taken from their specialist clinics and thrown into the deep end of the Covid-19 machinery.
“Many feel that things could be handled differently. Like not opening the bazaars and markets as enforcing SOPs will be difficult. Yesterday, Malaysia reported another 4,855 cases and 27 deaths. More importantly for health workers was the fact that active case numbers were now over 41,000. “Deep down, many of us are praying to get this whole thing sorted out quickly and clear out as many people as fast as possible but when you see the numbers your heart breaks.
However, non-compliance continues to be an issue, with Dr Noor Hisham previously conceding that pandemic fatigue was setting in. “The voluntary AstraZaneca rollout, I think, was brilliant; it meant more people vaccinated leading to, hopefully, less infected people.
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