Health DG shares how frontliners cope with terrified patients in Semporna

Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has shared some of the challenges faced by health officers in the field as they go about combating the Covid-19 pandemic.

He said the challenges faced by health officers in the field are very difficult and shared a post by Dr Muhamad Naim Ab Razak which told of how tough it was to convince a patient that an isopod was a safe device.

An isopod, or isolation pod, is a device used to transport infectious patients. The device is to prevent the infection from affecting the public and even affecting the doctors themselves.

"The risk of infection is very high in various circumstances. May all challenges and obstacles be overcome as best as possible," said Noor Hisham...