Malaysian surgeon recalls challenges performing surgery during the pandemic

We survived: Dr Mohammad Shukri, Dr Tee (right), who is now based in Penang General Hospital, had to literally operate out of another hospital during the pandemic. — Photos: DR MOHAMMAD SHUKRI JAHIT

A DOCTOR’S primary role is to treat the sick and save lives.

That was what senior consultant upper gastrointestinal (GI) and general surgeon, Dr Mohammad Shukri Jahit was busy doing at his former workplace in Hospital Sungai Buloh (HSB), Selangor.