'Your website will save lives’: NUS graduate builds translation portal for medical teams treating migrant workers

SINGAPORE: It was midnight on Tuesday when a sense of dread filled Sudesna Roy Chowdhury as she absorbed the breaking news: A record number of new COVID-19 cases in Singapore, with the vast majority of linked cases coming from foreign worker dormitories.

And the need was urgent: That same evening, it was announced that medical teams would be deployed to all dormitories within the week. Meanwhile, community isolation facilities like the Singapore Expo were also filling up with migrant workers.READ: COVID-19: All foreign worker dormitories to have medical teams of doctors and nurses from hospitals, polyclinics

She spent two hours inputting the Bengali translations of relevant phrases and terms used in the emergency department – such as when checking on a patient’s travel history and symptoms – which her sister helped compile. It was 11am when the site was ready to go. She sent it out to five friends who were doctors, and to her sister’s colleagues in the emergency department. Another sister, who is a paediatrician, also passed the word around.Within the next hour, Sudesna had signs that the website was “spreading like wildlife”. A professor wrote to her saying that he had shared it with a group of over 1,600 doctors and all 150 of his batch mates.

Busy as they were with the volume of patients, there was no time to look for interpreters, Tharun added – nor was it “logistically feasible” to ask one to come down to the hospital anyway. Sudesna also hopes that more doctors would call up a volunteer interpreter to assist in follow-up consultations.

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Wonderful work thank you 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

You want HDB flats, MRT lines or you want imported disease and schools closed, economy collapsed, people can't enjoy normal life, too many patients in hospital and stay at home. Think carefully. Cheers...!

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Positive is positive. Negative is what it is.

It does brings disaster to Singapore by having too many foreign workers. It brings short term benefit like economy growth but it brings disaster on long term. Stop hiring foreign workers.

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