Precious moment: Dr Santos with her son Sean Virgil Santos when he was nine. The boy, who is now 18, will be going to university soon. — Photo courtesy of Dr Santos
WHEN the lifting of the travel leave ban for healthcare workers was announced on Oct 19, Dr Sharon Sarmiento Santos, 41, a Filipino resident physician at Singapore’s Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH), immediately applied for leave to return home.
She will be going back to the Philippines next month to visit her 18-year-old son, whom she has not seen for the past two years.
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