Aidiladha: Health workers keep own feelings at bay to comfort patients

Frontline health workers holding the fort at the Covid-19 Integrated Quarantine and Treatment Centre (PKRC) 2.0 at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang (Maeps) are keeping their own sadness at bay for not being able to spend the auspicious Aidiladha festivity with their families to appear cheerful and project positive energy in efforts to motivate their patients.

Putting on a brave front while enduring the pain of being away from their loved ones is the sacrifice they are willing to make to provide comfort to the patients who are fighting the disease separated from their own families.

Medical assistant supervisor at DG Hall, PKRC MAEPS 2.0, Engku Mohd Nazri Engku Mansor, said patients felt miserable in the days leading to...