“IT’s hot. It’s stuffy. It feels like you are trapped in a cocoon, ” said Sean Thum as he recalled his discomfort of wearing a personal protective equipment (PPE) suit while on duty as a healthcare worker involved in the fight against Covid-19 recently.
From March 13 to June 30, Thum, a psychiatrist at Hospital Sultan Ismail in Johor, had been among the medical fraternity called to the front lines to stem the Covid-19 tide in Malaysia.
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