Protecting our doctors and nurses from pandemic-related mental health problems


Healthcare professionals in Sabah have been under tremendous mental and emotional stress dealing with the exponential increase in Covid-19 cases over the last month. — Bernama

There has been a surge of Covid-19 cases since the middle of last month (September 2020).

The number of reported positive cases have doubled from 10,031 cases on Sept 16 to 20,498 on Oct 18, with active cases increasing by about 11-fold from 668 cases on Sept 16 to 7,049 on Oct 18.

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